This book was obviously a research paper, and was very well done. I was interested in the book because Louis Rorimer was my great, great uncle. His older sister Bettie was my great grandmother, and my mother's namesake. When I was growing-up, we spent parts of many summers in Cleveland, and Louis Rorimer's granddaughter, Edie Duskin and I played together at Rorycrest and Bigsbluff. As my brother lives in Santa Fe, and met Edie's daughter a few years ago, I found out that Edie had moved to Santa Fe. Unfortunately, she died before I had this information. I had lost contact with her since we each went off to college, but heard about her occasionally from relatives in Cleveland.The book is very interesting as I have a number of things that Louis Rorimer designed for family members whose homes he decorated, as well as some items he had bought for them in Europe over the years. Now I understand exactly where he fits in in the family. He was way ahead of his time in so many ways. I did know his son James and his daughter, Louise, Edie's mother, and about their connection to both the Cleveland Museum and the Met in NYC and the Cloisters, and about Samuel Duskin's career, particularly that the Stravinsky Violin Concerto had been written for Mr. Duskin. It is really too bad that his great granddaughter only wants to sell all of this information, rather than donate it to either a conservatory or school of music where it could be of great value to the public and performing artists. If she ever does sell it, perhaps the buyer will have enough sense to donate it to a research university for their collections. We can only hope for that, as that is the very best repository for such a manuscript.At any rate, it's a very interesting book about design at the turn of the 19th century through mid 20th century.S. Reinach