The English House - Hardcover

Steel, John; Wright, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851495231 ISBN 13: 9781851495238

Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist, 2007

Synopsis

The English House reviews the changes in style that can be seen in domestic architecture in England from Norman times to the present day. Written for the interested layman rather than only for the architectural historian, it is how the house and its rooms were used and the way in which owners past and present lived in these properties which is the main subject of this book. The book is divided into fifteen chapters by date from 1000 to 2000 AD. Within each period the main characteristics of the houses are analysed and examples discussed and illustrated, concentrating both on well-known and less familiar structures. Starting with Norman houses, an introduction describes how the rooms in such houses were used and embellished and this is followed by a chapter dealing with early mediaeval buildings, showing how local variations can be recognised. The third chapter deals with the high mediaeval period and is followed by Tudor, Elizabethan and Jacobean houses. A chapter is devoted to the Carolean peri

About this title

About the Author:

John Steel (1934-1998) was one of the founders of the Antique Collectors' Club, retiring in 1992. He spent twenty years working on The English House, passionately practising what he preached by retoring three Suffolk houses over thirty years. Michael Wright was editor of Country Life magazine for eleven years, writing regularly on architecture, conservation and the fine arts. He has been Chairman of the Highgate Society, in north London, of the Friends of Bristol Art Gallery, and of the Lutyens Trust. He has contributed many articles to Country Life, to the Town Planning Institute Journal and to Homes and Gardens.

About this edition

• Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1851495231
• ISBN 13: 9781851495238
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416