Edwin Lutyens: Country Houses from the Archives of Country Life
New York: The Monacelli Press, 2001. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards; silver spine lettering. Olive green dj with bw color photo and black lettering. Bw illustrated flyleaves, 192 pp. with 200 bw photos. VG+/VG- (Book is clean, bright, and tight. Dust jacket has light foxing to the inside). Item #145294
ISBN: 9781854107633
A beautiful book of the architectural gems of Britain's pre-eminent 20th-century architect, Edwin Lutyens. Country Life championed his work, and each entry is taken from that publication. Included are Overstrand Hall, the Deanery Garden (Sonning), Lindisfarne Castle, Heathcote, Middleton Park and several others. Includes an introductory essay, bibliography and references, index and thorough explanations of each entry, with copious bw photos. "Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, was introduced by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his celebrated collaborator, to Edward Hudson, the founder of the great British magazine Country Life, in 1889. Hudson thereafter did all he could to promote the work of a man he admired without reservation, commissioning Lutyens to design the magazine's offices in Covent Garden in 1904, as well as three country houses. Country Life published articles about virtually all his buildings shortly after their completion, recording them as the architect intended, creating an unparalleled visual archive which is the source for this selection of outstanding photographs of Lutyens's domestic architecture." "Founded in 1897, Country Life from the outset published remarkable photographs, and the huge influence the magazine exerted was nowhere more apparent than in its unprecedented championship of Edwin Lutyens, whose buildings it promoted for almost fifty years. For this book, two hundred photographs have been beautifully reproduced from the Country Life archive and, combined with Gavin Stamp's illuminating essay, provide a unique survey of one of Britain's foremost architects."--Jacket.
OCLC: 47632981
Price: $115.00