Tapestries, wallpaper, carpets, ceilings, doors, windows, fireplaces, furniture, objects d'art--the authors show how each element of a room developed, and how the relationships among the various parts formed to become styles we now know as Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Palladian. Contains a useful chronological chart, glossary, and list of houses open to the public. 210 illustrations, 90 in color.

English Interiors: An Illustrated History

Arts & Photography

Gore, Alan

Gore, Ann

Photography & Video

Thames&Hudson

Surveys in photographs and text the character, traditions, and architecture of numerous English country villages and examines their function as the centers of English country life

English Country Villages

History

Perry, Clay

Europe

Viking Adult

The History of English Interiors

The History of English Interiors is the first complete history of English interior decoration. Using contemporary illustrations together with specially commissioned photographs, it details and discusses all styles and periods of English decoration. Beginning with the Normans, this book traces the development of the English interior through to such styles as Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Palladian. The great English architects and designers, from Inigo Jones in the seventeenth century to John Fowler in the twentieth, are all included and their influences explained.

Aprahamian, Peter

Phaidon Press

Traces the history and development of the English garden and reviews the best designs and the plants most frequently used

The English Garden

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Penguin??Books

Whether it's half-timbered, a mellow Cotswold stone, or Chiltern brick and flint, each traditional English village is unique. Some sit on ancient Bronze Age homesteads, others came into existence only in the last few hundred years. The prettiest of all appear here, surrounded by lovely landscape from Devon to the Lake District to Northumberland. "[A] handsome book...here is unspoiled village after village, beautifully delineated with photographs and well-matched by an informed and understanding text."--House and Garden.

Old English Villages (The Country Series)

Travel

Fleming, Laurence

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

Whether it's half-timbered, a mellow Cotswold stone, or Chiltern brick and flint, each traditional English village is unique. Some sit on ancient Bronze Age homesteads, others came into existence only in the last few hundred years. The prettiest of all appear here, surrounded by lovely landscape from Devon to the Lake District to Northumberland. "[A] handsome book...here is unspoiled village after village, beautifully delineated with photographs and well-matched by an informed and understanding text."--House and Garden.

Old English Villages (Country Series)

Pictorial

Seven Dials

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