Stuart Durant obituary

My father, Stuart Durant, who has died aged 88, was an author and lecturer in design and architectural history. He wrote the key reference book Ornament: A Survey of Decoration Since 1830 (1986), which was translated into several languages; published extensively on the Arts and Crafts movement; and was an authority on the 19th-century designer Christopher Dresser. In 2011 he co-authored a book on the regeneration of St Pancras International with its lead architect, Alastair Lansley.Through a pas