Monday Inspiration: The Greatest Rooms of the Century

I am returning once more to this book: Interiors, The Greatest Rooms of the Century, on this bank holiday Monday.... hellooooo *waves* is anyone out there....?  as I wanted to look more closely at design through the decades. Now, the caveat is that I can only show you the rooms that were cleared for publication and clearly there are another 390 in the book - including Dorothy Draper, Charles Rennie Mackintosh,  Oscar de la Renta. Colefax, Spry and Nicky Haslam) but I still managed to source one from each decade and I thought it would be nice to have a stroll through.

1900

Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Lutyens, Little Thakeham, for Ernest Blackburn, drawing room, near Storrington, West Sussex, England, UK, completed 1902. Picture credit: courtesy of Ashleigh Wigley William Norwich, the editor of this book, told me that was struck him most in putting this book together was the passion and enthusiasm that people have for creating interiors to satisfy their needs and points of view from minimalis…