This book was written by Charles Eastlake, a British architect and designer who established his own style called Eastlake style.Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details was a very influential book in England and America during the Victorian period.

This highly illustrated 1868 work on interior design gives a fascinating insight into the late Victorian taste for the medieval.

Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.

A republication of "[o]ne of the most important books in the history of 19th century domestic design", this book "covers almost all aspects of domestic living in mid-19th-century England ..."--Cover.

Being able to taste people's emotions in food may at first be horrifying. But young, unassuming Rose Edelstein grows up learning to harness her gift as she becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.