Exceptionally comprehensive, this single-source text/reference allows professionals and students to compare and contrast architecture, interior design, interior architectural features, design details, motifs, furniture, space planning, color, lighting, textiles, interior surface treatments, and decorative accessories through many centuries—from antiquity to the 18th century—from the many regions of the world.

Additionally, Architecture and Interior Design Through the 18th Century includes later interpretations of architecture, interiors, and furniture to illustrate the evolution of each stylistic influence, and examples of costumes. The volume is extensively illustrated and features many diagrammed illustrations with explanatory notes highlighting specific design features.

Contents

1. Introduction
   1. Cultural Precedents

2. Oriental
   2. China
   3. Japan

3. Antiquity
   4. Egypt.
   5. Greece
   6. Rome

4. Middle Ages
   7. Early Christian
   8. Byzantine
   9. Islamic
   10. Romanesque
   11. Gothic

5. Renaissance
   12. Italian Renaissance
   13. Spanish Renaissance
   14. French Renaissance
   15. English Renaissance
   16. American Colonial: England
   17. American Colonial: Spain
   18. American Colonial: France
   19. American Colonial: Germany, Holland

6. Baroque
   20. European Baroque
   21. Louis XIV
   22. English Restoration

7. Rococo
   23. Regence & Louis XV
   24. English Neo-Palladian & Georgian
   25. American Georgian

8. Early Neoclassic
   26. Louis XVI & French Provincial
   27. Late English Georgian
   28. American Federal

Bibliography
Glossary
Index

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