English Style Mary Gilliatt.

The Bodley Head. London. 1967. First edition. Hardback, large oblong quarto; white boards, dust jacket. 144 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. English. 285x370mm. 1.7kg. Very good, in very good dust jacket; light shelf wear to jacket, slight browning to white spine and rear panel, slight creases to rear panel, not price-clipped; no inscriptions. A survey of the most important and influential homes in England of the time. Michael Boys' photographs capture the '60s aesthetic perfectly. The interiors are divided into stylistic sections: Post-Festival Influence (Robin and Lucienne Day), Sturdy British (Terence Conran), The Purists (Peter Hall, Geoffrey Clarke, Colin St John Wilson), The New Wave (Leslie Waddington), English Style (Ricki Huston), Old Houses Renewed (Kensington Palace, Britwell Salome), Fantasy in Decoration and Designer-Decorators (David Hicks, Jean-Claude Ciancimino, Geoffrey Bennison). Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller.