Building Beautiful: Classical Houses By John Simpson

Aslet, Clive

ISBN 10: 0847870634 / ISBN 13: 9780847870639

Published by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, 2025

About this Item

315 x 265mm. pp. 222. English text. Hardback edition of 'Building Beautiful: Classical Houses By John Simpson' by Clive Aslet. Lavish colour photographic illustratiSee images. ons throughout. Bound in original cream cloth. Housed in pictorial dust jacket. Book and dust jacket clean. Binding strong. Dust jacket protected with removable mylar cover. 1.8kg. Extra postage overseas.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Beautiful: Classical Houses By John Simpson
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847870634
• ISBN 13: 9780847870639
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: Hardback Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

About this title

Synopsis

Go inside elegant homes designed by the famed designer of the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace and one of the world’s leading practitioners of New Classicism.

Stunning color photography and beautiful drawings bring to life Simpson’s rich ideas for architecture, interior design, and furniture design.

Inviting, perfect in proportion, exquisite in detail—such are a few of the ways to describe homes designed by John Simpson. Well known for his work with the British royal family at Buckingham and Kensington palaces and for his buildings at Eton College in the U.K. and at the University of Notre Dame in the U.S., he is perhaps most brilliant at the level of the house and home. Building Beautiful is an invitation to enter the work of this master designer, as one might visit with a treasured friend.

From a dream made real within a Venetian palazzo—a former seventeenth-century near-ruin, brought back to glorious, fancifully detailed life—to an English countryside cottage with a thatched roof, the featured homes are expressions of Simpson’s unerring eye and extraordinary sense of beauty. Here we find drama in contrasts of scale and the seductive effects of light, where a cozy reading nook opens to an expansive living room with a double-height ceiling that nevertheless feels not overly large but rather just right. This is Simpson’s subtle art—a mastery of scale, balance, and a pervading sense of elegance.

“ . . . brings Simpson’s dreamiest, most dazzling projects all in one place . . . You’ll return to these pages again and again for inspiration and wanderlust fulfillment.” —Veranda.com

About the Author

Clive Aslet, a novelist, historian, editor, and lecturer, is the former editor of Country Life magazine and the author of more than twenty books. Architect John Simpson has been the recipient of the Palladio Award, the Royal Institute of British Architects Award, the American Institute of Architects Honor Award, and the Arthur Ross Award, among many others.