English style
English style. Term coined in 1984 to describe a type of English and North-American late C20 interior design in which antique and modern, the odd and the familiar, the permanent and the ephemeral, and above all, fine quality, were synthesized.
Bibliography
E. Dickson (1989);
Slesin & and Cliff (1984)
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