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The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture, 1760 - 1860 (Hardcover)
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The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture, 1760 - 1860 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
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The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture is a history of the
late Georgian phenomenon of the architect-designed cottage and the
architectural discourse that articulated it. It is a study of small
buildings built on country estates, and not so small buildings
built in picturesque rural settings, resort towns and suburban
developments. At the heart of the English idea of the cottage is
the Classical notion of retreat from the city to the countryside.
This idea was adopted and adapted by the Augustan-infused culture
of eighteenth-century England where it gained popularity with
writers, artists, architects and their wealthy patrons who from the
later eighteenth century commissioned retreats, gate-lodges, estate
workers' housing and seaside villas designed to 'appear as
cottages'. The enthusiasm for cottages within polite society did
not last. By the mid-nineteenth century, cottage-related building
and book publishing had slowed and the idea of the cottage itself
was eventually lost beneath the Tudor barge-boards and decorative
chimneystacks of the Historic Revival. And yet while both designer
and consumer have changed over time, the idea of the cottage as the
ideal rural retreat continues to resonate through English
architecture and English culture.
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