Traces the development in England of the modern gentleman from the Tudor to the Edwardian period, and describes the standards, social conventions, and cultural heritage of that priviledged class

Product Description: This magnificently illustrated book documents the career of the virtuoso seventeenth-century sculptor, the finest woodcarver ever to appear in Europe. Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) combined in his work naturalism - it was said he could carve a leaf barely thicker than the original - with a lively and graceful composition that is unmistakably Baroque...read more

Works by such craftsmen as Tiffany, Lalique, Welch, and Wirkkala are featured in a study of the design, history and manufacture of glassware and glass sculpture since 1870

Critically examines the architecture and interior decoration of the eighteenth-century Scottish architect influential in the movement toward Neoclassicism and away from baroque and rococo styles