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u003cpu003eExuberant Chinese-inspired drawing rooms, Persian-style boudoirs, bulbous Mogul domes, and Turkish smoking rooms were once the rage in avant-garde circles and are undergoing a resurgence in popularity today as the global economy brings attention to the styles of the Far East, India, and the Islamic world. Emmanuelle Gaillard and Marc Walters lavish new book traces the Asian sources of this fashion, and its transformation in late 19th- and early 20th-century Western settings. Illustrated with extraordinary vintage and contemporary interior photography, fabrics, wallpapers, patterns, decorative objects, and costumes, this volume tours the houses of writers, thinkers, business tycoons, princesses, and even the Russian empress Catherine the Great. u003ciu003eExotic Tasteu003c/iu003e is a rich treat for anyone drawn to the fantastic, elaborate style of Orientalism.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Praise for u003ciu003eExotic Taste:u003c/iu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003e"Beginning in the 18th century, European tastemakers, chafing under the constraints of classicism, turned to the exotic East, swooning over the intricate patterns and scenes and lush, sensual colors found in the arts of China, Japan, India, and the Arabic world. u003ciu003eExotic Taste: Orientalist Interiorsu003c/iu003e examines the craze for all things Eastern that resulted in such anomalies as English country houses with onion domes and the tiled fantasia, complete with trickling fountain and pool, that the Victorian painter Lord Leighton build in his London home." u003ciu003eElle D?coru003cbru003e u003cbru003eu003c/iu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003e"The lengths that collectors will go to, the money and legwork they will sink into exotic antiques completely unrelated to their daily lives, can make for transporting reading. [One of] the years five best books in the genre, u003ciu003eExotic Tasteu003c/iu003e makes particularly good holiday reading because of Ms. Gaillards descriptions of jolly multicultural parties and intense shopping sprees." --u003ciu003eThe New York Timesu003c/iu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003eu003ciu003eu003cbru003eu003c/iu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003eFrom Chinese-inspired drawing rooms and Persian-style boudoirs to graceful Mogul domes and Turkish smoking rooms, stylistic influences from the Far East, India and the Islamic world have inspired Western architects, artists and designers for nearly 400 years. Dripping with exotic colors and tiles, this sumptuous tome is a history lesson and design book packed into one." --u003ciu003eDetroit Newsu003cbru003eu003c/iu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003eu003cbru003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003e"In 'Exotic Taste,' Emmanuelle Gaillard and Marc Walter appeal to those interested in collecting, design, architecture and art history and take readers on an artistically historical journey by illustrating, through more than 200 images, the development of Orientalism through the 19th and 20th centuries." --u003ciu003eNewsday u003cbru003e u003cbru003e "Exotic Taste: Orientalist Interiorsu003c/iu003e [is] a sumptuous look at how decorative styles from the Far East, India and the Islamic world found their way to the west." - u003ciu003eHouston Chronicleu003c/iu003eu003c/pu003e