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This definitive new book on British country houses offers a magnificent look at the life-style, architecture, and interior design of these historic landmark homes. From The Crown to Downton Abbey, the country house speaks to our fantasies of rustic splen-dor, style, and escape. Featuring three hundred photos from the National Trust, this lavish book draws back the curtain on the finest and most important historic homes in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, revealing these great houses' intriguing pasts, grand interiors, and vi-brant reinventions for the enjoyment of modern-day visitors, residents, and armchair travelers. Locations include Knole, Cragside, Castle Howard, Chatsworth, Polesden Lacey, Petworth, Castle Bodiam, Blenheim, Longleat, and dozens more. Illuminating essays by country house expert Jeremy Musson, legendary British author and historian David Cannadine, and contributing writers and scholars provide unique insight into centuries of life in a historic home. This is a rich visual resource for lovers of sumptuous interiors on a human scale, as well as grand exterior architecture and gorgeous landscapes. For Anglophiles, royals watchers, and lovers of the country house lifestyle, architecture, and interior design, this is a magnificent new look at landmark British country houses, the treasures they contain, and how they speak to our fantasies of rustic splendor and escape today.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku The arts Architecture Professional interior design

• Pełny tytuł: Country House: Past, Present, Future
• Autor: Sir David Cannadine
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 424
• EAN: 9780847862726
• ISBN: 0847862720
• ID: 19715074
• Wydawca: Rizzoli International Publications
• Waga: 3010 g
• Wymiary: 285 × 284 × 37 mm
• Data wydania: 25. September 2018

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