Country Houses A Novel

Author : Clive Aslet
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300263138

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The Story of the Country House by Clive Aslet Pdf

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.

Author : The Earl of Shaftesbury,Tim Knox
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780847863204

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The Rebirth of an English Country House by The Earl of Shaftesbury,Tim Knox Pdf

The brilliantly restored St. Giles House, in the idyllic Dorset countryside, offers high-point Georgian architecture and interiors that bridge many historical styles. The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, 39-year-old Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, invites the reader into the house that his family has called home since the fifteenth century. In recent years, his award-winning restoration has brought the house back to life, transforming exquisite spaces that honor the past while being suited to twenty-first-century living. English country-house splendor, through the hands of some of the world’s top artisans and craftspeople, returns to the house in the form of re-created wallpapers, customized paints, revived furniture from the Georgian and Victorian periods, reworked antique Brussels tapestries, restored plasterwork and textiles, and a complete overhaul of the landscape, with its sunken garden, woodlands, avenue of beeches, lake, and shell-encrusted grotto. With stories of noteworthy architecture, beautiful interiors, and centuriesof a single family’s involvement in British and world history, this book will appeal to devotees of country living, the aristocratic life, historic houses, and English interior design.

Author : Jocelyn Playfair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Country homes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112847327

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A House in the Country by Jocelyn Playfair Pdf

The great interest of Jocelyn Playfair's book for modern readers is its complete authenticity. Set sixty years ago at the time of the fall of Tobruk in 1942, one of the low points of the war, and written only a year later when we still had no idea which way the war was going.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0806974168

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The Old House Book of Classic Country Houses by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clive Aslet
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300105053

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The American Country House by Clive Aslet Pdf

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 : Mark Girouard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300034725

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The Victorian Country House by Mark Girouard Pdf

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 : Andrew Jackson Downing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : HARVARD:FL1K51

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The Architecture of Country Houses by Andrew Jackson Downing Pdf

Author : Adrian Tinniswood
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465098651

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The Long Weekend by Adrian Tinniswood Pdf

From an acclaimed social and architectural historian, the tumultuous, scandalous, glitzy, and glamorous history of English country houses and high society during the interwar period As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous and glamorous history of English country houses during the years between World Wars. As estate taxes and other challenges forced many of these venerable houses onto the market, new sectors of British and American society were seduced by the dream of owning a home in the English countryside. Drawing on thousands of memoirs, letters, and diaries, as well as the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and bibulous butlers, Tinniswood brings the stately homes of England to life as never before, opening the door to a world by turns opulent and ordinary, noble and vicious, and forever wrapped in myth. We are drawn into the intrigues of legendary families such as the Astors, the Churchills and the Devonshires as they hosted hunting parties and balls that attracted the likes of Charlie Chaplin, T.E. Lawrence, and royals such as Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. We waltz through aristocratic soiré, and watch as the upper crust struggle to fend off rising taxes and underbred outsiders, property speculators and poultry farmers. We gain insight into the guilt and the gingerbread, and see how the image of the country house was carefully protected by its occupants above and below stairs. Through the glitz of estate parties, the social tensions between old money and new, the hunting parties, illicit trysts, and grand feasts, Tinniswood offers a glimpse behind the veil of these great estates -- and reveals a reality much more riveting than the dream.

Author : Sadie Jones
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307402554

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The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones Pdf

It's rural England, just after the turn of the last century. Charlotte married Edward Shift after the sudden death of her first husband, Horace Torrington. They live at Sterne, the home they are in danger of losing due to a financial crisis, with Charlotte's 3 children: Emerald, Clovis and Smudge. On the day of Emerald's birthday party, a terrible train wreck occurs on a branch line and the stranded passengers seek refuge at Sterne. Among these passengers is Charlie Traversham-Beechers, a sketchy figure from Charlotte's past. This unusual guest list makes for an unforgettable birthday celebration for Emerald and an evening of the past literally coming back to haunt Charlotte.

Author : Claire Sandy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447276241

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A Very Big House in the Country by Claire Sandy Pdf

Holidays are about surviving the gaps between one meal and another.' For one long hot summer in Devon, three families are sharing one very big house in the country. The Herreras: made up of two tired parents, three grumbling children and one promiscuous dog; the Littles: he's loaded (despite two divorces and five kids), she's gorgeous, but maybe the equation for a truly happy marriage is a bit more complicated than that; and the Browns, who seem oddly jumpy around people, but especially each other. By the pool, new friendships blossom; at the Aga door, resentments begin to simmer. Secret crushes are formed and secret cigarettes cadged by the teens, as the adults loosen their inhibitions with litres of white wine and start to get perhaps a little too honest . . . Mother hen to all, Evie Herreras has a life-changing announcement to make, one that could rock the foundations of her family. But will someone else beat her to it?

Author : Mary Miers
Publisher : Rizzoli International publication
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822036416857

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The English Country House by Mary Miers Pdf

Sixty-two stunning houses in a range of architectural styles spanning seven centuries are brought to life through glorious imagery from the photography library of Country Life magazine.

Author : Clive Aslet
Publisher : Triglyph Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1916355404

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Old Homes, New Life by Clive Aslet Pdf

- Each of the 12 houses will be featured in national and international press to announce the book- In the UK, the media includes Tatler, House & Garden, Country Life, The English Home, and Telegraph Luxury Online- In the US, the media includes Town & Country, Architectural Digest Online, The AD Aesthete Podcast, Air Mail, and DeparturesThis book is a sumptuously produced journey around 12 privately-owned country houses, asking what it is like to live in such places today. What role do they play in the 21st century? For many years after the Second World War, the country house was struggling. Now a new generation of young owners, often with children, has taken over. They're finding innovative ways to live in these ancient, fragile and poetic places. While they treasure the history and beauty of the houses, they're also adapting and enhancing them for a modern era. Old Homes, New Life is a behind-the-scenes account of today's aristocracy, as they reinvent the country house way of life. Each family does this in its own way, maintaining the tradition of individualism, even eccentricity, which is so much associated with country houses. Dylan Thomas's superb yet intimate photographs capture both the inhabitants of these houses and the spaces they occupy - from State dining to family kitchen, walled garden to attic. This feast for the eyes is accompanied by an equally mouth-watering text by Clive Aslet, based on interviews with family members and his long experience of the subject through his years as editor of Country Life. The result is an exclusive tour of a dozen spectacular homes.

Author : Jeremy Musson
Publisher : Ebury Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015063237807

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How to Read a Country House by Jeremy Musson Pdf

Why was heraldry so important to the families for whom houses were built? How does the layout of a house reveal the values of the people who lived in it? By reading the architectural features of a house - even simple items such as windows, doors, chimneys and staircases - we can learn so much about the past. Interiors, as well as exteriors, have a story to tell, with floor layouts and contents of rooms revealing much about the people who built and lived in them. We can also read the iconography of a house: its symbols and images, spanning subjects such as classical mythology, religion and British history. Heraldry too is an essential tool for understanding much of the details found in country houses, from coats of arms to crests, or fireplace decorations and ceiling bosses. Through all this, we gain a glimpse into the social world of the families who lived there - and discover that the stories of many country houses are inextricably linked by marriage, royalty or political or military service. Richly illustrated with stunning photographs from the unique archive of Country Life magazine, this book is a joy for all those who want to learn more about our heritage, art and architecture, and the essential characteristics of a classic country house.

Author : Rose Shepherd (Writer of guidebooks),Reader's Digest
Publisher : Reader's Digest Association
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Country homes
ISBN : 1780201389

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The Most Amazing Stately Homes in Britain by Rose Shepherd (Writer of guidebooks),Reader's Digest Pdf

Britain’s stately homes and grand housesare among its greatest treasures, andThe Most Amazing Stately Homes inBritain brings you the grandest, mostmagnificent, eccentric and unusual ofthem all. This wonderfully illustratedregional touring guide describes eachhouse and tells its story, following theebb and flow of fortune and fame.Every house has something that setsit apart from the rest: the magnificentfour-storey Tudor tower (set in worldfamous gardens) of Sissinghurst inKent; sumptuous painted cloth wallhangingsof romantic Owlpen Manorin Gloucestershire; superb topiary atLevens Hall in Cumbria; sinister mythsof Blickling Hall in Norfolk and theenchanting Great Garden of Edzell Castlein Scotland, created in 1604 to stimulatethe mind and the senses. Discoverancient deer parks; exquisite collectionsof furniture, national treasures andbreathtaking views, to enjoy season-byseasonand year-round.The cover features Chatsworth inDerbyshire, one of Britain’s most famoushistoric houses and the fastest-growingpaid-for visitor attraction in 2010* withmore than 716,000 visitors. In May 2012Chatsworth featured in a popular threepartBBC1 documentary covering a yearbehind the scenes of the house and estate.

Author : Paul J. Mateyunas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122863058

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North Shore Long Island by Paul J. Mateyunas Pdf

Unsurpassed in the natural beauty of its rolling landscape and splendid harbours, the scope and