Decorative Art The Studio Year Book

“In the space of a year - that is since the publication of Decorative Art, 1937 - architecture and interior decoration have travelled a little further along the twentieth century’s route, in time precisely twelve months, in style, in aim, in usefulness and beauty a distance which cannot be exactly measured (what, after all, is a year?) but is something we can attempt to forecast or see in relation to a preceding and succeeding year.”