Designer's Guide to Furniture Styles

Summary: Winner of the ASID Educational Foundation Joel Polsky Prize, 1999 The American Society of Interior Designers 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 furn...iture, architecture, and artistic movements--and considers the social, political, and economic factors that influence design trends and individual taste. [read more]