Download e-book for iPad: The Country House Revealed: A Secret History of the British by Dan Cruickshank

By Dan Cruickshank

ISBN-10: 1849902062

ISBN-13: 9781849902069

Spanning the architectural background of the rustic condominium from the disarming Elizabethan appeal of South Wraxall, the classical rigour of Kinross in Scotland, the majesty and ingenuity of Hawksmoor's Easton Neston, the Palladian sweep of Wentworth Woodhouse, with over three hundred rooms and frontage of six hundred toes, the imperial exuberance of Clandeboye, via to the ebullient power of Lutyens' Marshcourt, the tales of those homes inform the tale of our nation.

All are the are constructions of the best architectural curiosity, every one with a desirable human tale to inform, and all stay deepest houses which are closed to the general public. yet their vendors have opened their doorways and allowed Dan Cruickshank to roam the corridors and rummage within the cellars as he teases out the tale of every condo - who outfitted them, the generations who lived in them, and the households who misplaced them. alongside the best way he has exposed stories of extra and profligacy, tragedy, comedy, strength and ambition.

And as those exciting narratives take form, Dan indicates how the tale of every home is inseparable from the social and monetary historical past of england. each is outfitted as a wave of financial improvement crests, or crumbles. each one one's structure and layout is hence expressive of the goals, strengths and frailties of these who outfitted them. jointly they plot the mental, fiscal and social direction map of our country's ruling type in a wealthy new telling of our island story.

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