Furniture: the western tradition; history, style, design
- London: Thames & Hudson, 1999
- 352 p il.
Antiquity; the disintegration of Classicism, 300-1450; the "pointed styles" -- Islamic and Gothic; the Renaissance revival of antiquity - Classicism and anti-Classicism; Baroque contrasts; the battle of styles -- English Classicism, Rococo, and "Gout Grec"; "Rococo neo-Classicism"; grotesque and "archaeological" Classicism -- synthesis and antithesis; eclectic revivalism; frugality and functionalism; the wilder shores of style -- China, Japan, India, Egypt, Africa; latter-day polarities.