Romantic English Homes
Autor Robert O'Byrneen Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 feb 2017
Robert O'Byrne has gathered together a collection of some of England’s most glorious homes including a rural farmhouse set in a quietly picturesque village and a fourteenth-century folly. Ever since the English aristocracy embarked on a Grand Tour in the seventeenth century, the passion for developing collections has been a national trait of England. As a result, the country’s aristocratic palaces became repositories of treasure gathered from around the globe. But so too, thanks to the spread of an Empire providing goods from across the globe, did almost every residence in England. Romantic English Homes features 14 such houses. Large or small, old or new, they all convey an impression of massed objects intentionally mingling styles and tastes, the classical placed next to the gothic, tartan pattern competing with floral print. Decorated with defiant eclecticism, the buildings featured here indicate that although the Empire may have gone, the English love of collecting remains as strong as ever. Criss-crossing the country, from Dorset, Devon and Cornwall to East Anglia and Suffolk, from London to Staffordshire and Northumberland, it is both the romantic timelessness of these properties and their many-layered appearance that makes them so alluring.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781782494126
ISBN-10: 178249412X
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 300 col photographs
Dimensiuni: 244 x 292 x 24 mm
Greutate: 1.36 kg
Ediția:New edition.
Editura: RP&S and Cico Books
Colecția CICO Books
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 178249412X
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 300 col photographs
Dimensiuni: 244 x 292 x 24 mm
Greutate: 1.36 kg
Ediția:New edition.
Editura: RP&S and Cico Books
Colecția CICO Books
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Robert O'Byrne is a well-known writer on architecture, fine art and design. A former journalist with the Irish Times, he has written extensively on historic houses and their decoration. Among his previous books is Romantic Irish Homes (also published by CICO Books). Robert is based in Dublin, Ireland.
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Romantic English Homes is an inspirational collection of truly timeless houses.