The Country Life Picture Book of Country Houses

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This Picture Book of Country Houses is a variation on the Picture Book theme that Country Life has been developing successfully for many years. Instead of covering a region of Britain, this new addition to the series deals with a particularly British phenomenon, the country house. The author, John Cornforth, has chosen 105 photographs of houses and arranged them more or less in chronological order, but he has not attempted to create a formal pictorial history. The illustrations have been chosen for their pictorial as well as their architectural quality. The eight colour plates are a reminder of the brilliant colouring found in English houses and which it is so difficult to capture.
The houses range in date from the medieval fortified manor-house of Stokesay Castle to the painted decorations in the drawing room at Mottisfont Abbey by the late Rex Whistler, but most of them were created in the 17th and i8th centuries, the heyday of country house architecture. A group of photographs... Tovább

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This Picture Book of Country Houses is a variation on the Picture Book theme that Country Life has been developing successfully for many years. Instead of covering a region of Britain, this new addition to the series deals with a particularly British phenomenon, the country house. The author, John Cornforth, has chosen 105 photographs of houses and arranged them more or less in chronological order, but he has not attempted to create a formal pictorial history. The illustrations have been chosen for their pictorial as well as their architectural quality. The eight colour plates are a reminder of the brilliant colouring found in English houses and which it is so difficult to capture.
The houses range in date from the medieval fortified manor-house of Stokesay Castle to the painted decorations in the drawing room at Mottisfont Abbey by the late Rex Whistler, but most of them were created in the 17th and i8th centuries, the heyday of country house architecture. A group of photographs of Georgian houses represent the tastes and interests of the nobility and gentry of that age. The fmal illustrations include views of two great buildings by Sir Edwin Lutyjns.
A number of the houses included in the book are not well known, but they are as much a part of the English scene as the grander ones. The idea of the book has been to suggest the rich variety of English houses and to illustrate some of the many facets that make them such an endlessly fascinating source of pleasure and subject of study.
COVER PICTURE: The exterior of Osterley Park, Middlesex, showing the portico adapted by Robert Adam from the Temple of the Sun at Palmyra.
{Country Life photograph)
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