Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House, 1660-1880 - Hardcover

Wilson, Richard; Willson, Richard; Mackley, Alan

 
9781852852528: Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House, 1660-1880
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1852852526 ISBN 13: 9781852852528
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL, 2001

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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

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Verlag
Continnuum-3PL
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1852852526
ISBN 13 
9781852852528
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
450
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