Great houses of England & Wales author: Christopher Simon Sykes
Publication details: New York : Rizzoli, 1994. Description: 424 p. : col. ill. ; 33 cmISBN: 9781780674025; 0847818241Subject(s): Bildband | Country homes | Country homes -- England | Country homes Wales | Geschichte -- 1930-2008 | Architecture -- England -- History | Maisons de campagne Angleterre | Manoirs Angleterre | Manors | Manors --England | Manors Wales | Nobility Dwellings | Nobility Dwellings England | Nobility Dwellings Wales | Wales -- In art -- ExhibitionsLOC classification: NA 7620 | .M66 1994| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Books | Vitali Hakko Kreatif Endüstriler Kütüphanesi | NA 7620 .M66 1994 | Not for loan | 013037 |
Gift of Cem Ertekin.
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."
Alnwick Castle
Haddon Hall
Powis Castle
Penshurst Place
Syon House
Knole
Compton Wynyates
Grimsthorpe Castle
Wilton House
Burghley House
Burton Constable
Longleat
Hardwick Hall
Blickling Hall
Woburn Abbey
Tredegar House
Badminton House
Ragley Hall
Chatsworth
Petworth House
Boughton House
Castle Howard
Blenheim Palace
Houghton Hall
Holkham Hall
Sledmere House
Harewood House
Kedelston Hall
Belvoir Castle
Highclere Castle
Carlton Towers
Waddesdon Manor