Interiors

The development of the domestic interior is a history of consumption and taste. In this book this story is set against the cultural and industrial changes taking place in the western world since the seventeenth century. Unlike almost all previous histories, this book does not deal exclusively with the grand houses of the aristocracy: Steven Parissien's masterly text concentrates rather on the homes of the merchants and middle classes, who have been the first to use new technologies to furnish their homes.

ISBN 9781856695381 | E | HB