Description: This book is an excellent 101 course in historic design for todays home, taught by a professor of architecture, and illustrated with more than 400 color images. This book answers the need of patrons, professionals, and the merely inquisitive to reconsider the tenets of classical or traditional design that were universally followed for more than twenty-five centuries. The work is divided along the lines of historical styles that inspired each project, including Eighteenth Century American Colonial, Georgian and Federal, Arts and Crafts, American Beaux-Arts, Philadelphia Style, American Eclectic, and Italian Influence. A tour of the twentieth-first century home includes kitchens and keeping rooms, bath suites, pools, outdoor rooms and gardens, wine cellars, bars, and entertainment rooms.
Brief description: Elizabeth Meredith Dowling, author of American Classicist: The Architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze, is an associate professor of architectural history at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.