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Chevening - A Seat of Diplomacy (Hardcover)
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Chevening - A Seat of Diplomacy (Hardcover)
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Chevening stands in a magnifi cent park below the wooded escarpment
of the North Downs in Kent. It has a history dating back around 800
years, but the house we see today is almost entirely the creation
of seven generations of the Stanhope family, building on the
original Inigo Jones house of 1630. For 250 years the Stanhopes
served their country as soldiers and statesmen, and at Chevening as
patrons of architecture and art. This new guide highlights the
contributions of the Earls and Countesses Stanhope to the building,
furniture, pictures, gardens and landscape of Chevening. It also
gives a short account of the family in the wider world in order to
set their creations in context. The decoration and architectural
features of each of the rooms - from the Entrance Hall with its
spectacular swirling staircase of c. 1721 to the sumptuous Tapestry
Room with its rare Berlin tapestries woven by Huguenot craftsmen in
1708 - are described and illustrated, and signifi cant and unusual
works of art highlighted, such as important portraits by Allan
Ramsay, Thomas Gainsborough, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. The Estate
consists of some 3,000 acres, and the gardens include a lake, maze,
parterre and a double hexagonal walled kitchen garden. The history
of the garden is explored, from the extensive landscaping in the
formal style by the 1st and 2nd Earls in the early 18th century, to
the naturalistic style created in 1775-78 - much of the character
of which survives today - to the re-formalizing in the 19th
century, with the creation of the 'Italian' gardens, a maze and
hedged allees. The wonderful restoration of recent decades and the
replanting to the designs of Elizabeth Banks is celebrated with new
photography. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the
Chevening Act coming into eff ect with the death of the last Earl
Stanhop and the 300th anniversary of his family's acquisition of
Chevening Estate.
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