some of the aristocratic styles started to blend together but I really appreciated seeing the small homes under "folk styles", the mountain homes, and the jugendstil/arts and crafts homes.
one of my top 5 reasons for watching a ton of movies set in the 70s 80s and 90s is seeing the set design, so this book is candy to me. it's a fun guide to where a lot of home design tropes started as well. some of the homes are stunning, some of them are stunningly ugly, many of them made me wonder ...