ABSTRACT
Duveen’s book, Colour in the Home was published in 1911 with thirty-two colour illustrations of model interiors. In his chapter on Taste, Duveen waspishly dismissed fashion and those that followed it: A delight in new impressions, a love of change are characteristic of the simple and uneducated. Of the Continental schools, the authors will only mention the Moresque and Spanish, and those which followed the Renaissance in Italy, France, and Germany, and of the French, only the Louis XIV., Louis XV., Louis XVI., and Empire. It is not intended to enter into the question of the relative merits of the different periods of architecture, or the various styles of decoration Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Georgian, or Adam. To complete the colour scheme, the cool purples of the carpet with an orange border and hangings, make a harmony which is nearly perfect.
