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The English Country House takes a look at the architecture and interiors of sixty-two stunning houses in a range of architectural styles spanning seven centuries—from the medieval Stokesay Castle to the newly built, Lutyens-inspired Corfe Farm—brought to life through the world-renowned photography library of Country Life. More than four hundred color and black and white illustrations provide an insight into the architecture, decoration, gardens, and landscape settings of these houses, which are set into their architectural and historical context by the accompanying text and extended captions. The book provides an entrée into the houses to which Country Life has had privileged access over the years, many of which are still private homes, often occupied by descendants of the families that built them. Punctuating the book at intervals in the form of booklets on rich, uncoated paper are six essays by leading British architectural historians that set the English country house into its social context and chart the changing tastes in decorating and collecting, the development of ancillary buildings, gardens and landscapes, and finally, its influence in the United States.
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There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scottish Highlands and the scattered islands of the Hebrides. This book combines the sensibility of a native from the island of South Uist with the eye of a travelling scholar of architecture.
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Balmoral Castle and it’s 50,000-acre estate has been the private Highland retreat of The Royal Family since the 1850s.Queen Victoria and Prince Albert fell in love with the Scottish Highlands in the 1840s and built the present Grade A listed castle in 1856, one of the very favourite homes of The Royal Family ever since, hosting kings, queens, tsars, kaisers, statesmen, prime ministers and many others.Much of the interior of the castle can now be visited together with a new restaurant, café, visitor centre and shop.Well-marked footpaths allow visitors to walk over much of the estate, with its astonishing views of one of the most beautiful and wild parts of Scotland.This gloriously illustrated little book is the perfect guide to one of Britain’s most extraordinary houses and estates.