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.
SO GOODThere's such a diversity of styles in here and even if you don't personally like all of them, they are all very interesting to look at and that's the point, yes?
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 ...
allow me to gush. i got this as a gift when i had my first child and it is, sorry, adorable. full of quotes and bits of verse about babies, including blake, emerson and fran lebowitz. here's one of my favorites:"One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the wo...