"Style and design from classical to contemporary."--Cover.
"A joint production from DK and The Price Guide Company"--Title page verso.
Includes index.
CHMNK copy 39088019605278 gift from Cecile Saretsky
Contents:
Decorative past, 4000BCE-1600CE -- Age of ornament, 1680-1760 -- Neoclassicism, 1760-1840 -- Age of excess, 1840-1900 -- Arts and crafts, 1880-1920 -- Art nouveau, 1880-1915 -- Birth of modernism, 1860-1920 -- Art deco, 1920-1940 -- Mid-century modern, 1940-1970 -- Postmodern and contemporary, 1970 onwards