Laurence King Publishing, London, 2000. Ex-Library book (stamp and issue slip on front endpaper, 'Withdrawn' stamp at side of Contents page), creasing/chipping/wear to top of dustjacket spine otherwise good secondhand condition.

This book "delivers the inside story on 6,000 years of personal and public space. The author acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, the arts and crafts, technology and product design all overlap. These topics are woven together in a fascinating narrative that runs from cave dwellings and temple architecture, through Gothic cathedrals and Renaissance palaces on to the grand civic spaces of the nineteenth century and the sleek interiors of modern sky scrapers."