A History of the Gothic Revival: An Attempt to Show How the Taste for Medieval Architecture which Lingered in England during the Two Last Centuries ... Library Collection - Art and Architecture) - Softcover

Eastlake, Charles Locke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110805191X ISBN 13: 9781108051910

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Charles Locke Eastlake (1833-1906), an interior, furniture and industrial designer, showed talent as an architect and was awarded a Silver Medal in 1854 by the Royal Academy. He is known for influencing the style of later nineteenth-century 'Modern' Gothic furniture with his Hints on Household Taste (1868), but his passion for medieval architecture developed much earlier while he was in Europe during the 1850s. In 1866 he became Secretary to the Royal Institute of British Architects, and it was in 1872 that this work was published. The book is notable for being released at the height of the Gothic Revival movement in the later nineteenth century. It includes detailed comments on the architects, societies, literature and buildings that formed the cornerstones of the Gothic Revival, primarily in Britain, from around 1650 to 1870. A valuable mine of information, it remains a key source on the topic.

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Book Description:

Charles Locke Eastlake (1833-1906), an interior, furniture and industrial designer, had a talent for designing architecture and writing about it. This work, published in 1872, details the architects, societies, literature and buildings that were central to the British Gothic Revival (c.1650-1870), and remains essential reading.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 110805191X
• ISBN 13: 9781108051910
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 520