English Style and Decoration: A Sourcebook of Original Design

This is a remarkable book. It contains very little text, just brief author and chapter introductions, and picture captions. The rest of the book is left to speak for itself. And it does. Loudly. Its 248 pages are packed full of illustrations – full colour photographs, superbly reproduced original sketches, drawings, lithographs and paintings – of textile designs, patterns for wire fences, furniture, interiors, floorings, glass, ceramics, household appliances and utensils, shower cubicles, hand basins, lamp brackets, fireplaces, doorknobs, etc., etc. All examples from 300 years of English design.

From 1700 to the mid‐twentieth century, English design, craftsmanship and manufacture...