The English Country House: From the Archives of Country Life 1897-1939

by Hall, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781854107565
• ISBN10: 1854107569
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Aurum Pr Ltd

Summary

Since Country Life was founded in 1897, every issue of the magazine has featured a scholarly and authoritative article on a country house, each one illustrated with specially commissioned photographs. The result is an unrivalled archive of superb photographs which form an architectural survey of the exteriors and interiors, furniture and furnishings, decoration and design of some of the finest houses and gardens in the British Isles.

The beautiful duotone images, many published here for the first time, along with Michael Hall's erudite and illuminating text, offer a unique and vivid insight into what has become known as the golden age of the English country house -- an era of late-Victorian and Edwardian opulence, a carefree society so delightfully captured in the works of P.G. Wodehouse. But in many respects, this golden age proved to be no more than an Indian summer. The loss of the men folk during the Second World War, coupled with the crippling death duties and the increasing difficulties in attracting servants, pointed towards a bleak future for many fam

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(14)
Ightham Mote	14	(10)
Herstmonceux Castle	24	(10)
Little Moreton Hall	34	(8)
Bramshill	42	(10)
Combe Abbey	52	(8)
Canons Ashby	60	(8)
Sudbury Hall	68	(8)
Castle Howard	76	(10)
Houghton Hall	86	(8)
Buxted Park	94	(8)
Wentworth Woodhouse	102	(10)
Clumber House	112	(8)
Syon House	120	(10)
Heveningham Hall	130	(10)
Alnwick Castle	140	(10)
Eaton Hall	150	(10)
Kelmscott Manor	160	(6)
Sandringham House	166	(10)
Deanery Garden	176	(6)
Charters	182	(10)
Index	192