Foreword / Mario Buatta -- The British Interior Design Exhibition : review 1988 / Stephen Calloway -- Preview 1989 / Paul Atterbury -- Traditional decoration today : revolution and rut / John Cornforth -- French influence on British design / Catherine Haig -- The role of craft in interior design / Martina Margetts -- On fooling the zeitgeist / Roderick Gradidge -- The taste-makers : design patronage in the late eighties / Colin Amery -- A house resuscitated / John Stefanidis -- Design profile / Manuel Canovas -- Formal design in the garden / George Carter -- Hardy Amies on fashion in interiors / Jane Mulvagh -- The process of design / Sally Gritten -- Books of the year / Stephen Long