Great houses such as Holkham, Sissinghurst, Chatsworth, Burghley and more modest loveliness such as Kelmscott too. Also images of that elusive idea of 'quintessential' Britishness - fly fish... read more
From Arts and Crafts and Art Deco through Modernism, Postmodernism and emerging bright sparks: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edwin Lutyens, Berthold Lubetkin, Richard Rogers, Seth Stein, et ali... read more
The authors took Madame de Pompadour's maiden name for their design company, inspired by their restoration projects and their recreation of C18th domino papers. Their work is enchanting and ... read more
A handsome book of drawings and watercolours by a skilled and sensitive hand that understands the very different way that the mind reads art as opposed to a computer-generated image.
Vol 1 (on country houses) came out in April; this second volume covers gardens, Delhi, Washington; vol 3 will follow next year. These are large, folio-sized and magnificent.
Eye-stretching and ebullient examples of Italian Brutalism - many very beautiful - from the publishing team that brought us Soviet Bus Stops a few years ago and other architectural wonders.
Matthew Williamson made his name as a fashion designer before moving into interiors. In both careers he's been at the forefront of the anti-taupe brigade.
The British designer's take on the scrapbook, collecting and interiors with brief reminiscences of her family and their houses - including Clementine Churchill and Chartwell.
The beautiful C17th baroque villa near Siena was bought by Tony Lambton in the 1970s and recently restored by the next generation after a fire, with the help of Camilla Guinness.
To accompany the exhibition at MoMA about the history of enironmental thinking in architecture and focussing on the moving lines between ecology, design and politics.
This close analysis, gorgeously illustrated, amounts to a superb study of the Baroque phenomenon everywhere, as well as of vast and elegant Danish palaces.
Breathtaking photographs of desolate and mostly ruinous buildings in vast, often snow-dusted landscapes. Published earlier this year in Germany with the text in English, this is a rare treas... read more
Stunning photos by the self-confessed philhellene: a poet's hut, a taverna in Hydra and other traditional interiors as well as grander and more spacious houses in Athens, the Peloponnese and... read more
A simple cottage that became "a Federal-style manse" complete with bowling alley and tennis pavilion. All beautifully decorated by our Nina. (Perhaps also a dojo upholstered with fabulous fl... read more
Liberated from formality, the looser landscape gardening of the C18th fizzed with grottoes, follies and temples of course, but also with deer pens, stables, dovecotes, boathouses, etc. Many ... read more