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The Story of Greenwich

By: Clive Aslet

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Those curious about the world of Greenwich, England, get a reader's tour of the streets and byways of this storied city and its rich history of pomp and pageantry, revolutions and exploits, and soaring scientific achievements. 160 illustrations, 100 in color.

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Harvard University Press

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ISBN 10

0674000765

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9780674000766

The American Country House

By: Clive Aslet

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The American Country House

By: Clive Aslet

This magnificent book describes the great country houses built with American industrial fortunes from the end of the Civil War until 1940. The American Country House draws on the rich and often amusing writings of contemporaries to evoke the lives the buildings served as well as architectural shapes they took. 275 illustrations.

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320

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Yale University Press

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0300105053

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9780300105056

The Story of Greenwich

By: Clive Aslet

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Villages of Britain

The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside

By: Clive Aslet

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Villages of Britain

The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside

By: Clive Aslet

Britain's villages are world famous for their loveliness and idiosyncratic charm. Each village is different; travel across the country and you will unearth a joyous variety, from straggly Leintwardine in Herefordshire to BBC-film-perfect Askrigg in Yorkshire to higgledy-piggledy tourist hub Polperro in Cornwall to Miserden in Gloucestershire, with its staggeringly beautiful gardens, to Pittenweemin Fife, still eking a living from fishing, to the warring villages of Donhead St. Mary and Donhead St. Andrew in Wiltshire. History and architecture account for some differences-the memorials in churches, the details of door frames and chimney stacks-but there are also differences of spirit, and in how life is lived there today. What are the thriving local businesses? What are they selling in the shops-or are there shops at all? What are the traditions, old or invented? Who are the people who make these communities work? In this captivating volume, Clive Aslet draws on thirty years of travel in the countryside working for Britain's Country Life magazine to give us a living, personal, and opinionated history of five hundred of Britain's most beautiful and vibrant villages. Meticulously researched and drawing from conversations with local residents, publicans, and vicars, this book is both an indispensable gazetteer for anyone planning to tour the countryside and a portrait of rural Britain in a time of change.

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1131

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608196720

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9781608196722

Inside the House of Lords

By: Clive Aslet,Derry Moore

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Inside the House of Lords

By: Clive Aslet,Derry Moore

Derry Moore's exclusive colour photographs and Clive Aslet's authoritative text provide a sumptuous architectural and historical appreciation of the Upper House.

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0004140478

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9780004140476

The Story of the Country House

A History of Places and People

By: Clive Aslet

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The Story of the Country House

A History of Places and People

By: Clive Aslet

The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present The Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual houses, their architects, and occupants, and paints a vivid picture of the wider context in which the country house in Britain flourished and subsequently fell into decline before enjoying a renaissance in the twenty-first century. The genesis, style, and purpose of architectural masterpieces such as Hardwick Hall, Hatfield House, and Chatsworth are explored, alongside the numerous country houses lost to war and economic decline. We also meet a cavalcade of characters, owners with all their dynastic obsessions and diverse sources of wealth, and architects such as Inigo Jones, Sir John Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, Sir John Soane and A.W.N. Pugin, who dazzled or in some cases outraged their contemporaries. The Story of the Country House takes a fresh look at this enduringly popular building type, exploring why it continues to hold such fascination for us today.

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256

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Yale University Press

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0300263139

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9780300263138

The Last Country Houses

By: Clive Aslet

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The Last Country Houses

By: Clive Aslet

The magnificent country houses built in Britain between 1890 and 1939 were the last monuments to a vanishing age. Many of these great mammoths of domestic architecture were unsuited to the changes in economic and social priorities that followed the two world wars, and rapidly became extinct. Those that survive, however, provide tangible evidence of the life and death of an extraordinarily prosperous age.The fascinating world, so vividly depicted in Evelyn Waughs Brideshead Revisited, can now be viewed from a new perspective. The Last Country Houses will enlighten all those interested in glimpsing the lost life style of another age.

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0300029047

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9780300029048

Villages of Britain

The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside

By: Clive Aslet

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The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside

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Old Homes, New Life

The Resurgence of the British Country House

By: Clive Aslet

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Old Homes, New Life

The Resurgence of the British Country House

By: Clive Aslet

- Each of the 12 houses will be featured in national and international press to announce the book- In the UK, the media includes Tatler, House & Garden, Country Life, The English Home, and Telegraph Luxury Online- In the US, the media includes Town & Country, Architectural Digest Online, The AD Aesthete Podcast, Air Mail, and DeparturesThis book is a sumptuously produced journey around 12 privately-owned country houses, asking what it is like to live in such places today. What role do they play in the 21st century? For many years after the Second World War, the country house was struggling. Now a new generation of young owners, often with children, has taken over. They're finding innovative ways to live in these ancient, fragile and poetic places. While they treasure the history and beauty of the houses, they're also adapting and enhancing them for a modern era. Old Homes, New Life is a behind-the-scenes account of today's aristocracy, as they reinvent the country house way of life. Each family does this in its own way, maintaining the tradition of individualism, even eccentricity, which is so much associated with country houses. Dylan Thomas's superb yet intimate photographs capture both the inhabitants of these houses and the spaces they occupy - from State dining to family kitchen, walled garden to attic. This feast for the eyes is accompanied by an equally mouth-watering text by Clive Aslet, based on interviews with family members and his long experience of the subject through his years as editor of Country Life. The result is an exclusive tour of a dozen spectacular homes.

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304

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Triglyph Books

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1916355404

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9781916355408

Sir Edwin Lutyens

Britain's Greatest Architect?

By: Clive Aslet

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Sir Edwin Lutyens

Britain's Greatest Architect?

By: Clive Aslet

Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Edwardian country houses, surrounded by rhapsodic gardens, beguiled clients with their romance and wit. After 1918, the war memorials that he created symbolized a grieving nation's sense of loss. In the new capital of the British Raj, New Delhi, the Viceroy's House or Rashtrapati Bhavan had a footprint bigger than Versailles. His unfinished Liverpool Cathedral would have rivaled St Peter's in Rome. Intensely shy, Lutyens hid his personality behind puns and jokes - and yet he could be called "part mystic," a reference to an inner profundity. Rich in stories, this entertaining and stylish short biography is a major new study incorporating fresh research which shows this most charismatic of architects in a new light.

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272

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Stylus Publishing, LLC

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1739731484

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9781739731489

Landmarks of Britain

The Five Hundred Places That Made Our History

By: Clive Aslet

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Landmarks of Britain

The Five Hundred Places That Made Our History

By: Clive Aslet

Landmarks of Britain' is the history of the nation, told through the places where it actually happened. Including notable locations such as Glasgow School of Art, Plymouth Hoe and Sherwood Forest, Clive Aslet relives the epic moments which have helped to shape the nation. Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005.

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0340735112

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9780340735114

Building Beautiful

Classical Houses by John Simpson

By: Clive Aslet

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Building Beautiful

Classical Houses by John Simpson

By: Clive Aslet

New homes, featuring interiors, gardens, and furniture from London-based architect John Simpson, famed designer of the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace and one of the world’s leading practitioners of New Classicism. 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.

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Rizzoli Publications

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0847870634

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9780847870639

Countryblast

Your Countryside Needs You Now

By: Clive Aslet,Michael Heath

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Countryblast

Your Countryside Needs You Now

By: Clive Aslet,Michael Heath

A spotlight on the dramatic, destructive changes taking place in rural Britain.

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John Murray Pubs Limited

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0719549450

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9780719549458

Book's by Clive Aslet

The Story of Greenwich

The Story of Greenwich

The American Country House

The American Country House

The Story of Greenwich

The Story of Greenwich

Villages of Britain

Villages of Britain

Inside the House of Lords

Inside the House of Lords

The Story of the Country House

The Story of the Country House

The Last Country Houses

The Last Country Houses

Villages of Britain

Villages of Britain

Old Homes, New Life

Old Homes, New Life

Sir Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Lutyens

Landmarks of Britain

Landmarks of Britain

Building Beautiful

Building Beautiful

Countryblast

Countryblast

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