The Rebirth of an English Country House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rebirth of an English Country House write by The Earl of Shaftesbury. This book was released on 2018-09-25. The Rebirth of an English Country House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The brilliantly restored St. Giles House, in the idyllic Dorset countryside, offers high-point Georgian architecture and interiors that bridge many historical styles. The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, 39-year-old Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, invites the reader into the house that his family has called home since the fifteenth century. In recent years, his award-winning restoration has brought the house back to life, transforming exquisite spaces that honor the past while being suited to twenty-first-century living. English country-house splendor, through the hands of some of the world’s top artisans and craftspeople, returns to the house in the form of re-created wallpapers, customized paints, revived furniture from the Georgian and Victorian periods, reworked antique Brussels tapestries, restored plasterwork and textiles, and a complete overhaul of the landscape, with its sunken garden, woodlands, avenue of beeches, lake, and shell-encrusted grotto. With stories of noteworthy architecture, beautiful interiors, and centuriesof a single family’s involvement in British and world history, this book will appeal to devotees of country living, the aristocratic life, historic houses, and English interior design.
Noble Ambitions
Noble Ambitions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Noble Ambitions write by Adrian Tinniswood. This book was released on 2021-09-21. Noble Ambitions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic values As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, its mansions fell and rose. Ancient families were reduced to demolishing the parts of their stately homes they could no longer afford, dukes and duchesses desperately clung to their ancestral seats, and a new class of homeowners bought their way into country life. A delicious romp, Noble Ambitions pulls us into these crumbling halls of power, leading us through the juiciest bits of postwar aristocratic history—from Mick Jagger dancing at deb balls to the scandals of Princess Margaret. Capturing the spirit of the age, historian Adrian Tinniswood proves that the country house is not only an iconic symbol, but a lens through which to understand the shifting fortunes of the British elite in an era of monumental social change.
The English Country House
The English Country House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English Country House write by Mary Miers. This book was released on 2009-10-06. The English Country House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sixty-two stunning houses in a range of architectural styles spanning seven centuries are brought to life through glorious imagery from the photography library of Country Life magazine.
Reynolda
Reynolda - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reynolda write by Barbara Mayer. This book was released on 1997. Reynolda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
House Held Up by Trees
House Held Up by Trees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook House Held Up by Trees write by Ted Kooser. This book was released on 2012-03-27. House Held Up by Trees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Built on a treeless yard by a family who cleared away all the sprouting trees on the property, a house is eventually abandoned and left to deteriorate on a lot that is gradually overrun by wild trees, in a poignant tale of loss, change and nature's quiet triumph by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former U.S. Poet Laureate and author of Delights & Shadows.
