English Style

[1960s Design]

A survey of the most important and influential homes in England of the time. Michael Boys' photographs capture the '60s aesthetic perfectly. The interiors are divided into stylistic sections: Post-Festival Influence (Robin and Lucienne Day), Sturdy British (Terence Conran), The Purists (Peter Hall, Geoffrey Clarke, Colin St John Wilson), The New Wave (Leslie Waddington), English Style (Ricki Huston), Old Houses Renewed (Kensington Palace, Britwell Salome), Fantasy in Decoration and Designer-Decorators (David Hicks, Jean-Claude Ciancimino, Geoffrey Bennison).



Mary Gilliatt. Photographs by Michael Boys. The Bodley Head. London. 1967. First edition. Hardback, large oblong quarto; white boards, dust jacket. 144 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. English. 285 x 370mm. 1.7kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; light shelf wear to jacket, slight browning to white spine and rear panel, slight creases to rear panel, not price-clipped; no inscriptions.