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ARCHITECTURE & INTERIORS

A fine study, bringing together architectural, urban and social history.

The Modern British City 1945-2000

Simon Gunn

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An exemplary study, via the great masterpieces (Blenheim Palace, Castle Howard etc). CSS casts the romantic, emotional work of Vanbrugh against that of his more staid contemporaries, Wren an... read more

John Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture

Charles Saumarez Smith

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Silks, jewels, fans, toile de Jouy, her private apartments and the Petit Trianon; also what came later - the myth, the cult, fashion and feminism. To accompany this autumn's blazing show at ... read more

Marie Antoinette Style

Sarah Grant

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These case studies draw in all (English) human life through the different ways in which we live together, cheek-by-jowl.

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings

Dan Cruickshank

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Considers the sturdy craftsman bungalows of Cora Cadwallader Tuttle and William Hazel's eerie Victorian... A reminder that Frank Lloyd Wright was not the only American practitioner of the Ar... read more

Arts and Crafts Architecture across America

Maureen Meister

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AD goes bling: gold foil and gilded edges announce this celebration of the well-regarded design magazine. A shimmering Peeping Tom for coffee tables.

Architectural Digest at 100: The Collector’s Edition ...

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Over a dozen houses including Farmleigh, Luggala, Kenwood, Biddesden...

The Houses of Guinness: The Lives, Homes and Fortunes of the Great Bre ...

Adrian Tinniswood

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Thirty of Grange's latest projects across Europe and the United States.

Jacques Grange: New Projects

Pierre Passebon

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Tips and good humour for the domestically anxious.

Home

India Knight

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Modernism has an ecological bent in this survey of ambitious buildings that elide the distinction between human dwelling and the natural world. A fine treatise on the sharp corner and the cu... read more

Courtyard Homes

Joann Plockova

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A substantial, illustrated study of Vanbrugh's gem.

Castle Howard

Christopher Ridgway

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Have you ever found yourself cooing over a ventilation shaft? Not yet? ...which is why this illustrated introduction to the form - the coy, the robust, the artistic and the unapologetic - m... read more

Adventurous Vents

Lucy Lavers

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Great British tastemakers, beginning with Morris and Bloomsbury and including the Spitalfields Trust; houses and gardens that express Guilding's penchant for patina, artistry and making-do. ... read more

Bible of British Taste: Stories of Home, People and Place ...

Ruth Guilding

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A very handsome book which illustrates in gorgeous detail the couturier's passion for design outside the workshop. Part architectural history, part Who's Who of the 1930s' Côte d'Azur.

La Pausa: The Ideal Mediterranean Villa of Gabrielle Chanel ...

Olivier Meslay

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A brilliant primer for the intersection between function and form in C18th British/Irish style. Scholarly and well illustrated.

Architecture and Artifice: The Crafted Surface in Eighteenth-Century B ...

Christine Casey

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Cambridge as it might have been - Brutalist concrete ziggurats by Denys Lasdun, the fellows' gardens along the Backs eliminated for a soothing verdant parkland by Capability Brown, a Gothic ... read more

Unbuilt Cambridge

Timothy Mowl

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A very good-looking book on the gorgeous interiors dreamed up by the team behind the eponymous architectural salvage company and design studio: bohemian, inventive, chic. With contributions ... read more

Retrouvius: Contemporary Salvage

Maria Speake

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From palaces to farmhouses... Lovely photographs.

Tuscan Rooms: Interiors from the Heartland of the Renaissance ...

Antonio Monfreda

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Ruhlmann's pavilion at the 1925 Paris Exposition was a sensation - and launched the Art Deco movement. This glossy, large-format book includes a facsimile of the original show catalogue.

The Birth of Art Deco: Ruhlmann and the Hotel du Collectionneur, 1925 ...

Jared Goss

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A handsome survey of the last hundred years, from Phaidon.

Making Space: Interior Design by Women

Jane Hall

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A detailed celebration of the Elizabethan house, its interiors, collections and the Capability Brown parkland.

Burghley House

John Martin Robinson

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Contemporary interiors as well as historic ones.

Inside Sicily

Christopher Garis

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A hymn to the extraordinary in the roadside ordinary, in praise of an endangered British species.

226 Garages and Service Stations

Philip Butler

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It's been a while since there was a decent illustrated book available on Clubland. This shows all the old stalwarts but also novices such as Soho House and Ned's.

The London Club: Architecture, Interiors, Art

Andrew Jones

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The Vatican; a private coastal church in Japan; rural Greek monastery; a Baptist church in the American South... FB-G's range is wide, his charm constant.

Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings that Made Christ ...

Fergus Butler-Gallie

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A gorgeous book on the C17th Imperial Villa in Kyoto, with maps, drawings & photographs.

Katsura: Imperial Villa

Arata Isozaki

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Eighteen women over five centuries: their travails, triumphs, influence, legacy - and their houses. Wonderful social history.

Mistress: A History of Women and their Country Houses ...

Anthony Fletcher

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Commissioned by James Beale in 1891, the Sussex house remained in the family until it went to the National Trust in 1972.

Standen: Philip Webb, Morris & Co. and the Creation of an Arts an ...

Anne Stutchbury

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A fine illustrated study of this Romantic palace.

The Royal Pavilion, Brighton: A Regency Palace of Colour and Sensation ...

Alexandra Loske

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A mentor to Le Corbusier, Ozenfant was an artist and critic who ran art schools in Paris and London in the 1920s and '30s. Highly regarded, he knew everyone: Leonora Carrington was a student... read more

Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy

Charles Darwent

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Since the king's interest in architecture burst upon the world with his 'carbuncle' speech at Hampton Court in 1984, he has been instrumental in the creation of Poundbury and many other proj... read more

King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture

Clive Aslet

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The beloved and greatly missed CG, friend and cousin of us at Sandoe's. Here is a book largely made up of his own autobiographical pieces, some hitherto unpublished, with many photographs of... read more

Christopher Gibbs: His World

Lucy Moore

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Ando has collaborated with the photographer Pare for many years. A monument to sublime simplicity.

Tadao Ando – light and space

Tadao Ando

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Revised, updated edition of the 1997 book, with new plans, drawings, photos. It is the best book on the creator of Fallingwater.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Robert McCarter

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A splendid illustrated book on this Palladian wonder, with scholarly essays on its artworks and library too.

Holkham: An English Treasure House and Its Landscape ...

Leo Schmidt

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Pevsner, Gombrich, Weidenfeld... the list of 1930s' émigrés who profoundly enriched British culture is extraordinary and very long. OH argues that we forget our proud tradition of asylum a... read more

The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigres Transformed the Br ...

Owen Hatherley

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