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Great Houses of England & Wales (Hardcover)
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Great Houses of England & Wales (Hardcover)
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Presented here are thirty-two notable buildings and their estates
that represent a characteristically English combination of
architectural splendor and domestic comfort. This chronological
selection presents a panoramic history of the evolution of the
great house from Elizabethan through Edwardian times and up to the
present ongoing battle for preservation. Acknowledged architectural
masterpieces as well as lesser-known houses represent the work of
Inigo Jones, Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and Robert Adam
among many other celebrated architects. The photographs, specially
taken for this volume, show the familiar as well as the unexpected.
In addition to splendid state rooms, grand exteriors and gardens
there are photographs of private rooms and servants' quarters.
These illuminating photographs offer access to the houses from an
insider's point of view, presenting contemporary homes rather than
museum interiors. The informed text combines architectural and
social history with the individual stories of the great families
and the houses they created, where their descendants in many cases
still live today. Full of memorable characters and anecdotal
insight, this book is a glorious tribute to what Evelyn Waugh in
his preface to Brideshead Revisited called Britain's chief national
artistic achievement.
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