Building Norfolk - Hardcover

Matthew Rice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711229015 ISBN 13: 9780711229013

Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2009

Synopsis

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About the Author

Matthew Rice is a painter, designer and writer. He is the author of Village Buildings of Britain (Little Brown), to which Prince Charles contributed a foreword. He lives in Norfolk with his wife, the potter Emma Bridgewater.

Review

His book can only help us to realise that, despite modern building regulations and planning, it is traditional materials, peculiar to their locality and correctly used, that will carry us over the threshold from the traditional to the modern; to the realisation that a building can have style without being in a particular style. Country Life In a lovely book extensively illustrated with his idiosyncratic and witty watercolours, Rice pays homage to the country houses, estate buildings, seaside towns, inns, parsonages and many churches. Sunday Telegraph Book of the Week: All those interested in architecture will enjoy this book. And of course every Norfolk dweller lucky enough to live in one of the old cottages, vicarages or country houses there. Daily Telegraph An informative and entertaining way to discover Norfolks Buildings. BBC Countryfile His pictures sing from the page. Unlike photographs, the medium allows him to 'emphasise, exclude or exaggerate', and its washes are ideal for rendering, say, the uneven colour of a wall of carrstone. Architectural features have annotations in the author's own hand, and these can range from the witty to exasperated. He lays into lazy modern house design and unimaginative planning, finishing the book with his own scheme to expand the village of Worstead: an intelligent blueprint with wide application. Though Rice does not stint the great country houses his heart seems to lie with more modest buildings. Such discoveries in the sticks are, it seems, normal for Norfolk. World of Interiors "An impressive achievement - a wonderfully illustrated book that makes you look again at Norfolk and see its glorious array of architecture with fresh eyes." Judges hail the winner of the EDP-Jarrold East Anglican Book Awards. Eastern Daily Press Insightful and amusing with superb illustrations and lucid, vivid historical commentary Family History Monthly

Edition details

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0711229015
• ISBN 13: 9780711229013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 200