The Modern Interior

Published by Reaktion Books Ltd

33 Great Sutton Street

London ec1v 0dx

http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk

First published 2008

Copyright © Penny Sparke 2008

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Printed and bound in Great Britain

by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Sparke, Penny

The modern interior

1. Interior decoration – History

I. Title

747'.

isbn-13: 978 1 86189 372 7

For Molly, Nancy and Celia

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