As someone who is coming to the topic from a perspective of historical interest, not the perspective of an interior designer, I wish that this book had had more references about the source of the images and objects. (E.g., the book will have a beautiful image of an art nouveau door, but not tell you where it is located or who the designer is, making it difficult to do any follow up research on the building.)

Still, it's a reasonably good introduction to the topic and I did learn some things. ( )

Not bad. My primary complaint is that it's simply to short/small to do the topic justice and needs to be much more comprehensive and thorough. I can see a book 3-5 times larger with more detail, info, etc., so that is where this book fails, and I don't know if that's the author's fault or the publisher's, but it simply could and should have been better. Still, not bad, so I'm glad I read it. I just want to read much more now... ( )