This close analysis, gorgeously illustrated, amounts to a superb study of the Baroque phenomenon everywhere, as well as of vast and elegant Danish palaces.
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
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
Garcia has converted a Baroque monastery near Noto in Sicily: there are pearls around some of the gilded doorways and a large temple in the garden. Not for the austere or faint-hearted. Spl... read more
Looks at forty of this extraordinary architect's works around the world, from the Bilbao Guggenheim to the recent Luma Arles tower, showing how he has expanded our ideas of what a building c... read more
A monograph on one of the most extraordinary French châteaux. Built in the C17th, Vaux-le-Vicomte was designed by Louis Le Vau in collaboration with the painter Charles Le Brun and the land... read more
The multi-talented Forquet, who worked with Balenciaga and went on to dress Sophia Loren and Diana Vreeland in the 1960s and '70s, was also a decorator, collector, and garden designer.
Half a century before Owen Jones's 'Grammar of Ornament' (1856), Freiherr zu Racknitz produced this survey of twenty-four different styles, some historical, some contemporary, the predictabl... read more
Eight decades of Japanese architecture and design, approached chronologically. More illustrations than there are pages; the author has spent four of these decades based in Japan.
A hefty and well-illustrated work of scholarship that engages with all aspects of architecture in the British Isles from towns and villages to military and industrial buildings.