Clare Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Art History, The Open University.
"Finalist for the Historians of British Art book award ""The book is geared to historians of material culture and design scholars. ... [Taylor] reaches her target audience by addressing and examining areas of greatest interest as the book is informative and packed with detailed information. This book would be of interest to anyone interested in wallpaper history, eighteenth-century industry or period interiors. Illustrations are plentiful, numerous endnotes follow each chapter, and there is an extensive bibliography."" --Journal of Design History"