In this text, Lucinda Lambton sets out to show that it is in America rather than in Britain that she finds a sense of living history, where the culture and traditions of old Europe are most vibrantly alive. She argues that right across the spectrum of American life is a respect for the past, a sense of continuity with tradition, which much of ...
In this expanded version of her classic book , Lucinda Lambton explores the development of the lavatory. She describes over 150 jewels of sanitation, all of them eag erly nosed out in private houses, pubs, gentlemen''s clubs an d department stores. '
This is a collection of weird and funny writings about pets. Lady Lucinda first appeared on TV in the 1980s with "A Cabinet of Curiosities" and "Beastly Buildings" and she is the editor of this book that contains poems, stories and extracts about parrots, wallabies and woodchunk.
The Romans were the first to establish bathing in Britain, but after they had gone, the principle of cleanliness disappeared for 1000 years. Public bathhouses were reintroduced into Britain by the Crusaders, and remained until the reign of Henry VIII. It was in the 1800's that England began to produce an array of baths, lavatories and wash basins. ...
This book has been written and the photographs have been taken to acclaim and applaud a collection of houses and their builders. The author has chosen them because she considers them all remarkable architectural flights of fancy: some of them beautiful, some of them hideous, but all have been chosen for their originality and exuberance, with ...
The author's inquisitiveness and love of England leads her to discover, write about and photograph such oddities as an underwater smoking room in Surrey, an 18th century "cottage ornee" in Devon decorated with shells, a cottage built of cement and chicken wire, triangular and circular houses, houses in churches, houses in medieval castles and ...
Lucinda Lambton visited the odder and more eccentric models of architecture in Britain, in alphabetical order, for a BBC television programme. This book records of her findings. It includes secret libraries, long-forgotten catacombs, sequestered labyrinths and secluded mausoleums.
Over the course of the last twenty-five years, David Harrison has created a body of work unique in contemporary British art that is characterized by wit, a playful love of contradiction, and quiet erudition. Working in two and three dimensions, the artist's paintings, sculptures, and collages transform the natural and man-made worlds into mythical ...
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