Designer's Guide to Furniture Styles

by Treena Crochet

This book profiles the history of the development of various furniture styles, exploring the evolution of style in the context of the architectural setting, interior design, and decorative arts of each period. It presents a complete timeline—correlating political and cultural events to the development of furniture, architecture and artistic movements—and considers the social, political, and economic factors that influenced design trends and individual taste.

Genres: Interior Design

292 pages, Hardcover

First published August 28, 1997