Historic Interiors

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Historic Interiors
A Photographic Tour
The National Trust looks after over two hundred historic houses, from medieval manors to Edwardian villas. With stunning images from two leading interior photographers, Nadia Mackenzie and Andreas von Einsiedel, this book offers a tour of some of these houses. Step into the great hall at Knole in Kent and admire the magnificent wooden screen; climb the grand staircase at Pctworth, Sussex, and gaze upon the gods of Olympus painted on the walls; rcflect in the baroque chapel at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire and relish the table set for a society dinner at Polesden Laccy in Surrey.
In the accompanying text, Margaret Willes takes you on another tour - through the centuries - explaining how the various rooms have changed in style and in use. She unravels the complex history of the living room, tracing its development from the solar where the sun shone, through the parlour where talking was encouraged, to the boudoir, where ladies might sulk.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Historic Interiors
A Photographic Tour
The National Trust looks after over two hundred historic houses, from medieval manors to Edwardian villas. With stunning images from two leading interior photographers, Nadia Mackenzie and Andreas von Einsiedel, this book offers a tour of some of these houses. Step into the great hall at Knole in Kent and admire the magnificent wooden screen; climb the grand staircase at Pctworth, Sussex, and gaze upon the gods of Olympus painted on the walls; rcflect in the baroque chapel at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire and relish the table set for a society dinner at Polesden Laccy in Surrey.
In the accompanying text, Margaret Willes takes you on another tour - through the centuries - explaining how the various rooms have changed in style and in use. She unravels the complex history of the living room, tracing its development from the solar where the sun shone, through the parlour where talking was encouraged, to the boudoir, where ladies might sulk. She tacldcs the tricky question of state apartments, in which who you were dictated where you went, and whether you might be allowed the honour of entering the state closet or the ultimate privilege of sleeping in the state bed.
A wonderful visual record of some of the most beautiflil country houses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the book also shows how life has changed for those who inhabited these houses through the ages. Vissza