Historic Houses of South Africa

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historic houses of
SOUTH AFRICA
Graham Viney Photographs by Alain Proust
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^his lavishly illustrated book presents twenty-three of South Africa's greatest houses from the t elegandy simple to the lavishly opulent. Author
i Graham Viney, who is an interior designer as well as a professional restorer of old houses, sheds light on his country's history with this comprehensive exploration of South Africa's architectural legacy. The colonial houses featured in this book create a dmeline, charting not only the evolution of South Africa's architectural and interior design styles but also its culture and society in the two centuries leading up to its independence.
Whether it's an eighteenth-century Cape Dutch farmhouse, a Regency villa, or the Victorian mansions favored by the wealthy nineteenth-century sugar barons and randlords, specially commissioned full-color photographs, architectural drawings, and black-and-white archival photographs, capture the spirit of each house. The... Tovább

Fülszöveg

historic houses of
SOUTH AFRICA
Graham Viney Photographs by Alain Proust
T
^his lavishly illustrated book presents twenty-three of South Africa's greatest houses from the t elegandy simple to the lavishly opulent. Author
i Graham Viney, who is an interior designer as well as a professional restorer of old houses, sheds light on his country's history with this comprehensive exploration of South Africa's architectural legacy. The colonial houses featured in this book create a dmeline, charting not only the evolution of South Africa's architectural and interior design styles but also its culture and society in the two centuries leading up to its independence.
Whether it's an eighteenth-century Cape Dutch farmhouse, a Regency villa, or the Victorian mansions favored by the wealthy nineteenth-century sugar barons and randlords, specially commissioned full-color photographs, architectural drawings, and black-and-white archival photographs, capture the spirit of each house. The well-researched and authoritative text provides a lively examination of the architecture and interior design of these houses along with colorfiil portraits of their builders and occupants, including the merchants of the Dutch East India Company; the English aristocrats who tried to recreate England on foreign soil; and visionary architects like die Englishman Herbert Baker, who resurrected the Cape Dutch tradition and, in the process, established it as one of South Africa's most important architectural and decorative motifs. Also included in the book is a convenient glossary of High Dutch and colonial terms.
Historic Homes of South Africa is an indispensable resource for anyone who is a student of colonial architecture and design. It also serves as an excellent primer for people traveling to South Africa—several of the houses are open to the public—or for those who are simply interested in enriching their understanding of diis unique country. Vissza