Creating paradise

Rubriek: Textual/Printed/Reference Materials - Boek

Prijs: € 70.23

Rating: 0/5

☆

☆

☆

☆

☆

Verzending:
2 - 3 weken

This work looks at the building of country houses as a whole. It investigates why owners embarked on extensive building programmes, often following a "Grand Tour". The cost of building the great and small country houses is explored, along with their furnishing and decoration.



Building or rebuilding their houses was one of the main concerns of the English nobility and gentry, some might say their greatest achievement. This is the first book to look at the building of country houses as a whole. Creating Paradise shows why owners embarked on building programmes, often following the Grand Tour or excursions around other houses in England; where they looked for architectural inspiration and assistance; and how the building was actually done. It deals not only with great houses, including Holkham and Castle Howard, but also the diversity of smaller ones such as Felbrigg and Dyrham, and shows the cost not only of building but of decorating and furnishing houses and of making their gardens. Creating Paradise is an important and original contribution to its subject and a highly readable account of the attitude of the English ruling class to its most important possession.

• 1 Bekijk alle specificaties

Country House Life

Rating: 0 / 5 | Prijs: € 14.51

A collection of over 250 photographs sourced from the archives of the national trust s historic properties depicting life in britain s country homes and estates a collection of over 250 photographs sourced from the archives of the national trust s historic properties depicting life in britain s cou 2 - 3 weken .. MEER INFO

The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century

Rating: 0 / 5 | Prijs: € 49

This work explores the british country house during the period 1700 1830 and looks at the lives of both the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them it provides insight into many different areas the role and rank of family and sevants furniture landscape architecture painting scultpture Op voorraad. Voor 15:00 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO