Baronial Bedrooms: The Kama Sutra of Grand Design by Barbara Billauer Bailey

By Barbara Billauer Bailey

A grand travel of seven-hundred years of palatial bedrooms spanning 4 continents and ten international locations, Baronial Bedrooms: The Kama Sutra of Grand layout, offers a historiography of layout, structure, historical past and bedroom-intrigue during the a long time. starting at a time whilst the bed room supplanted the salon or parlor as audience-chamber and meeting-room of the imperial category, this booklet distills the essence of ornamental beneficial properties universal throughout countries, continents, cultures and time, and provides undying axioms of adornment in a way that's available, proper and glossy. Showcased in hundreds and hundreds of images, analytical remark and pithy captions, “Baronial Bedrooms” is a banquet for the eyes, and thought for the brain, and a resource of never-ending satisfaction to the reader, even if expert decorator, historian, or a baronial wanna-be. feedback for incorporation of the rules distilled from an research and research of those rooms, but simply adaptable for today’s ‘Barons-on-a-Budget,’ are provided in sleek examples.

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