Variant Title:
Interior design and decoration
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 677-708) and index.
Egyptian glass: p. 26-27; stained glass: p. 156-157, 485-486; Italian glass: p. 275-276; Versailles Hall of Mirrors: p. 321; English glassware: p. 384; early American glassware: p. 458-460; 19th century glass: p. 500-503; glass in architecture by Frank Gehry: p. 540.
Contents:
Design before history (before 3400 B.C.) --
Egypt (4500 B.C.-A.D. 30) --
The ancient Near East (2800-331 B.C.) --
Greece (2800-146 B.C.) --
Rome (753 B.C.-A.D. 550) --
Early Christian and Byzantine design (A.D. 330-800 and 330-1453) --
Romanesque and Norman design (c. 800-c. 1200) --
The Gothic (1132-c. 1500) --
Islamic design (A.D. 622 to the present) --
India (2500 B.C. to the present) --
China (4000 B.C.-A.D. 1912) --
Japan (A.D. 593-1867) --
The Italian Renaissance and later developments --
Spain (the eighth to the nineteenth century) --
The French Renaissance and later developments (fifteenth to eighteenth centuries) --
The English Renaissance and later developments (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) --
Pre-Columbian America (before the sixteenth century) --
The Europeans in North America (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) --
The nineteenth century --
The twentieth century.
