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Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher :
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300034721
A study of Britain's great nineteenth-century houses examines their architects, and the social, technological, and economic conditions that made the massive structures possible
Author : Michael Hall
Publisher : Aurum Press Limited
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The English country house reached its apotheosis in the nineteenth century. Designed by the most eminent architects of the age, the houses were bigger, more elaborate and more lavishly furnished than ever before, becoming a byword throughout the world for luxury, technological innovation and convenience of plan. Michael Hall's new survey draws on the Country Life archive to present the most complete visual record yet published of the Victorian country house. Chronologically arranged to span the decades from the 1830s to the 1890s, the houses range from the High Gothic of Tyntesfield to Ferdinand Rothschild's flamboyantly French Waddesdon Manor and Philip Webb's Arts and Crafts interiors at Standen. Victorian houses have suffered more from sales and demolitions than houses from any other period. The Country Life images are the only record of great houses such as Wrest Park, Thoresby Hall and Hewell Grange in their heyday. Houses that have survived with their interiors intact but are little known to the public are also featured, such as Flintham Hall and the Earl of Harrowby's Sandon Hall. Here, too, are spectacular colour photographs of some of the most celebrated houses of the period, from A. W. N. Pugin's Scarisbrick Hall to J. D. Crace's astonishing interiors at Longleat. With over 150 superb photographs and a commentary by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, this book provides an excellent overview of a major period in British architectural history. Michael Hall is an architectural historian and the Editor of Apollo magazine. A former Architectural Editor and Deputy Editor of Country Life, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a trustee of Emery Walker's Arts and Crafts house and Chairman of the Victorian Society's activities committee. His books include The English Country House: From the Archives of Country Life, also published by Aurum.
Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300058703
Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.
Author : William T. Comstock
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486259727
Forty-four authentic and charming designs for vacation homes in varied styles and sizes, most low-to-medium budget, with perspective views, elevations, and floor plans. 200 illustrations.
Author : Clive Aslet
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300105056
This magnificent book describes the great country houses built with American industrial fortunes from the end of the Civil War until 1940. The American Country House draws on the rich and often amusing writings of contemporaries to evoke the lives the buildings served as well as architectural shapes they took. 275 illustrations.
Author : Robin Guild
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN :
This guide combines historical information with design ideas and advice on how to decorate, renovate and maintain a vintage home.
Author : Jon Agar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1349263249
In recent years there has been a growing recognition that a mature analysis of scientific and technological activity requires an understanding of its spatial contexts. Without these contexts, indeed, scientific practice as such is scarcely conceivable. Making Space for Science brings together contributors with diverse interests in the history, sociology and cultural studies of science and technology since the Renaissance. The editors aim to provide a series of studies, drawn from the history of science and engineering, from sociology and sociology and science, from literature and science, and from architecture and design history, which examine the spatial foundations of the sciences from a number of complementary perspectives.
Author : Andrew Jackson Downing
Publisher :
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN :
Author : Pamela Horn
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780747807506
Country houses formed a distinct community and power base within the broader Victorian countryside. This book shows how landed families' day-to-day existence depended on the skills of the indoor servants who provided their meals and ministered to their general comfort, and the outdoor staff who contributed to their leisure and sporting pursuits. It considers the relationship - and the divisions - between those living 'above stairs' and and the carefully considered hierarchy of domestics who met their needs 'below stairs'. Also considered are the wider social activities of the two groups who, while living under the same roof, experienced a very different daily round. That applied to preparations for the holding of house parties and the running of sporting events, as well as the important social influence exerted by the London 'Season'.
Author : Clive Aslet
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 38,30 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300263139
The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present The Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual houses, their architects, and occupants, and paints a vivid picture of the wider context in which the country house in Britain flourished and subsequently fell into decline before enjoying a renaissance in the twenty-first century. The genesis, style, and purpose of architectural masterpieces such as Hardwick Hall, Hatfield House, and Chatsworth are explored, alongside the numerous country houses lost to war and economic decline. We also meet a cavalcade of characters, owners with all their dynastic obsessions and diverse sources of wealth, and architects such as Inigo Jones, Sir John Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, Sir John Soane and A.W.N. Pugin, who dazzled or in some cases outraged their contemporaries. The Story of the Country House takes a fresh look at this enduringly popular building type, exploring why it continues to hold such fascination for us today.