The history of design in today's sense begins in the Baroque period, when it worked the first prominent artists-called ebenistami carpenters and the first two hundred years has been the history of furniture and wnętrzarstwa. The prevailing style is called today by the great historical styles, or from the names of monarchs (style definitions appear in the history of art is always after the fact.) The main styles with similar characteristics were in various European countries and America have different names, there were more or less simultaneously, and enriched by the regional variations were sometimes shaped the local tradition and historical conditions.