This history of the Gothic revival traces the story of the movement from its beginnings in the experiments of 18th-century gentlemen to its ultimate embodiment in the Houses of Parliment. The book concentrates on the domestic forms of style from its use in country villas to its influence on city streets from Oxford to New England. In this wide ...
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was one of the most influential architects and designers of the 19th century. He pioneered an appreciation of medieval art and architecture and established in his polemical writings and design manuals the principles upon which the 19th-century Gothic Revival was based. His ideas were adopted and developed ...
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was one of the most appreciation of medieval art and architecture and established in his polemical writings and design manuals the principles upon which the 19th-century Gothic Revival was based. His ideas were adopted and developed by followers as diverse as William Morris and Frank Lloyd Wright. Pugin ...
The Crace family were the most important firm of interior decorators working in Britain in the 19th century. They earned this title by the sheer number and importance of their commissions, working for every British monarch from George III to Queen Victoria and on a range of buildings that includes royal palaces, Leeds Town Hall and the Great ...
This book explores the ever-changing view of the past, from Saxon times to the present day, from the British Isles to modern-day China - how the Middle Ages populated ancient sites with dragons and elves; how people responded to the historic landscape many centuries ago; and, how the landscapes and buildings of the past came to be interpreted and ...
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