Elements of Design A Practical Encyclopedia of the Decorative Arts from the Renaissance to the Present

Noel Riley, is a specialist writer and lecturer on the decorative arts. A part-time tutor at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, and a lecturer for the Worker's Educational Association, she contributes a regular column to Historic House Patricia Bayer, is a specialist in 19th- and 20th-century European and American decorative arts and design Helen Clifford (Neoclassical Silver and Metalwork), course tutor in silver and metalwork at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Royal College of Art, London Max Donnelly (Aesthetic Movement), registrar and 19th-century decorative arts expert at The Fine Art Society, London Jane Gardiner (16th- to early-18th-century pottery), Deputy Director of the 17th- and 18th-century Decorative Arts course at Sotheby's Institute, London Mary Greensted (Arts and Crafts Movement), curator and Keeper of Visitor Services at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum Sally Kevill-Davies (18th-century ceramics), expert, writer, and researcher, responsible for the re-cataloguing of English porcelain at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Rachel Layton Elwes (American Baroque and Rococo furniture, Neoclassical ceramics and glass, and Contemporary), curator in Medieval and Modern Europe at the British Museum, London, and curatorial assistant at The Gilbert Collection, London J.R. Liefkes (16th- to early-18th-century glass), Acting Chief Curator of the ceramics and glass department at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London Andy McConnell (Rococo and Neoclassical glass), glass expert, historian, and writer Alan Powers (Modernism), writer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich School of Architecture and Landscape, London Daru Rooke (Historic Revivals and The Grand Manner), broadcaster and Senior Curator, Leeds Museums and Galleries Mary Schoeser (16th- to early-19th-century textiles), textile specialist, Consultant Archivist and Curator at the London Institute and Liberty of London Prints Timothy Schroder (16th- to 19th-century silver and metalwork), former Curatorial Consultant and Keeper of the Gilbert Collection, London Adriana Turpin (16th- to early-18th-century furniture), Deputy Director of Sotheby's Europe and decorative arts tutor at Sotheby's Institute, London Lisa White (Rococo, Neoclassical furniture), curator at the Holborne Museum of Art, Bath Nigel Whiteley (Space Age), professor in the School of Creative Arts at Lancaster University Ghislaine Wood (Art Nouveau), curator in the research department of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London Jonathan M. Woodham (Postmodernism), professor of History of Design and Director of the Design History Research Centre, University of BrightonRiley, Noel is the author of 'Elements of Design A Practical Encyclopedia of the Decorative Arts from the Renaissance to the Present', published 2003 under ISBN 9780743222297 and ISBN 0743222296.