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Loading... An illustrated history of furnishing, from the Renaissance to the 20th century (1964)by Mario Praz
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One could hardly do justice to this book by attempting to cover its contents. One can only explain that it is an enormous collection of paintings, drawings and engravings of all kinds of rooms in all kinds of dwellings, from royal palaces to taverns, collected from all over Europe as well as from Russia and America. There are usually people in these rooms, so the book is a history of social life as well as a history of furnishing. I have found it inexhaustibly interesting. It provides such a variety of entertainment that one cannot take it in by merely setting out to go through it. One should have it around on the table and give it an hour from time to time. It is, in any case, a wonderful volume that nobody but Praz would have undertaken.