Interior Design: Design History

Mesopotamia and Egypt -- The classical foundation : Greek, Hellenistic, Roman -- Early Christian and Byzantine -- Carolingian and Romanesque -- The Gothic experiment -- Renaissance harmony -- Baroque expansion -- Eighteenth-century classicism -- The nineteenth-century -- Art nouveau -- The twentieth century -- The twenty-first century

300 biographical entries of people who have significantly impacted design from late Renaissance to the twenty-first century.

Includes major chapters on:
Historicists1860-70s
Seccessionists 1897-1902
Modernists 1902-1907
Avant-Gardists 1980-2011

A beautifully-illustrated account of temporary architecture created for festivals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, together with permanent architecture pressed into service for festival occasions across major European locations including Italian, French, Austrian, Scottish and German