Palats & herrgårdar

The quintessential style, cooking, and home interior book from Soho House, the world's leading members' club. Since the first Soho House opened its doors over 25 years ago, we've learnt a bit about what works. Contemporary, global yet with somethi...

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A gazetteer of the many fine Shropshire country houses, which covers the architecture, the owners' family history, and the social and economic circumstances that affected them. Shropshire is the largest English inland county, and has a wide variet...

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Julita gårds historia är unik och sträcker sig över mer än tusen år. Denna generöst illustrerade bok handlar om forntiden med vikingatidens storgård, medeltidens cistercienskloster, den äldre vasatidens kungsgård, 1600-talets järnbruk, 1700- och 1...

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Köpmansfursten Herman Petersen var en av de förmögna handelsmän under 1700-talet som gick under benämningen skeppsbroadeln. Dessa visade sin ställning i Stockholm genom att flytta in i den gamla maktens stadspalats och låta uppföra praktfulla herr...

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Hellekis säteri på Kinnekulles västsida, bär på många historier. Även om de tar avstamp i det lokala, är de samtidigt delar av en större berättelse. Under flera hundra år har Hellekis ägare rört sig i samhällets övre skikt, där samhällsförändringa...

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Följ med på en spännande inblick i ett arkitektoniskt och unikt mästerverk, Nicodemus Tessin den yngres hem på Slottsbacken mitt i Stockholms hjärta. Palatsets fasad är inspirerad av italienska palats med en inredning i fransk barock av högsta kla...

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A personal tour of twenty of the UK's most beguiling houses¿in this much loved area of western England. Author and architectural historian, Jeremy Musson, and Cotswolds-based photographer Hugo Rittson Thomas, offer privileged access to twenty hous...

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'Glamour, scholarship and superlative storytelling [...] an enthralling read.' LUCY WORSLEY Adrian Tinniswood opens the doors on the excess, intrigue and absurdities of life in the late Victorian and Edwardian country house In the decades before t...

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A Place in Scotland is a collation of interior spaces that represent a rejuvenated Scottish vernacular that has emerged over the past twenty years. Something is happening in Scotland - a new confidence - and inspirational voices are redefining wha...

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Highclere Castle, known as 'the real Downton Abbey' bustles with activity at the best of times, but it is never more alive than at Christmas. Christmas at Highclere is a look behind the scenes at the routines and rituals that make the castle the m...

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Långdunker är idag en modern herrgård där byggnader, skog och mark vårdas och bevaras för kommande generationer. Men historien börjar på 1500-talet och har genom åren tillhört kända adelssläkter i Sverige. Mangårdsbyggnad uppfördes i mitten av 170...

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"Husen som låg i vägen" handlar om den gamla kulturbygden och gårdarna mellan Norrköping och Kolmårdsbranten - Malmölandet och Kvillinge. En historisk miljö på Sveriges bästa åkermark, full av herresäten och dramatisk historia från vikingatiden vi...

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Step inside a magical world of dollhouses with this whimsical coloring book. The book contains over 20 unique dollhouses, miniature houses, and shops to color-all filled with delicately detailed furniture, accessories, and inhabitants. Try your ha...

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This stunning volume provides an enchanting visit to one of the most storied and beautiful English country houses. No place embodies the spirit of the English country house better than Chatsworth. From best-selling books such as Georgiana: Duchess...

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Created over four decades from the 1720s to the 1760s by the highly erudite, visionary, and ambitious Earl of Leicester, Holkham is a masterpiece of Palladian architecture. Richly illustrated and with far-reaching essays, this volume invites us to...

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Built to last, built to impress, built with style and grandeur - it is all the more remarkable when the most ostentatious of buildings fall into disrepair and become ruins. From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mans...

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'Julie Summers has an amazing instinct for unearthing good stories and telling quotes.' Craig Brown, The Mail On Sunday 'This is an enjoyable book, peppered with examples of under-reported wartime heroism.' Robert Leigh-Pemberton, The Daily Telegr...

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The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present ¿ "An eclectic scholarly account, tracing the evolution of the country house from the hunting lodges of the Middle Ages to the modern ...

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'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORY For centurie...

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Castles and palaces around the world are structures of grandeur, might and beauty.¿ From the flamboyance of Germany's fairy tale-Neuschwanstein Castle to the gothic, Dracula-inspiring Bran Castle, perched high in the craggy peaks of Romania's Carp...

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A captivating memoir of one woman's relationship with a man and his mansion.When Belinda Rathbone, a New York art historian, met eccentric Anglo-Scots bachelor John Ouchterlony it was the start of a story of clashing cultures and crumbling houses....

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A biography of an unsung Victorian hero, Joseph Paxton was the man behind the garden design at Chatsworth and the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851.The Victorians heralded a new era of creativity, a revolutionary fervour seizing all f...

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In this fully illustrated ebook, TV's Dan Snow brings to life a cavalcade of medieval fortifications and allows the reader to experience the clashes up close. (Images best viewed on a tablet.)Castles and their ruins still dominate the landscape an...

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