Style Traditions: Recreating Period Interiors

by Stephen Calloway, Stephen Jones

Surveys the various periods in the development of interior design in Britain, from Tudor to the later twentieth century, and suggests ways that each period can be recreated

223 pages, Hardcover

First published February 15, 1990

About the author

Stephen Calloway is a curator of paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

He is an expert on 19th century art, and has made a particular study of the decadent and dandy culture of the fin de siecle.

He staged the V&A's exhibition on the 1890s, 'High Art and Low Life' in 1993, and curated the 'Aubrey Beardsley Centenary Show' in Tokyo and London in 1998.

He writes on the history of taste and lectures widely in England and America.

He also worked, in his role as a consultant on period sytle and manners, with Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich on Jane Campion's film of Henry James' novel 'The Portrait of a Lady'.

Reviews

[Dawson Cole · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was a little gagged ! i want to live in a world of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's creation