The Classical Country House: From the Archives of Country Life
London: Aurum Press, 2010. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, color illustrated dust jacket, bw illustrated end pages, bw frontispiece, 192 pp, profusely illustrated in bw and color. VG+/VG. Item #179695
ISBN: 9781845135935
"Architectural historian David Watkin takes a fresh look at the traditional British country house and shows how Classicism has been a seminal influence on British architecture since the 17th century. It includes over 150 images from the Country Life archive to illustrate the study of 26 major houses and their architects."- website Chapters include: Seventeen century: the birth of classicism on English soil -- Eghteenth century: from palladio to Pompeii -- Nineteenth century: back to Greece and forward to Rome -- Twentieth century: pre-war varieties of classicism -- Into the twenty-first century: Classicism reborn:1960 to the present day.
OCLC: 610818177
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