With terraces overlooking the Severn estuary, water gardens and an enormous pillared pergola, the house was an Edwardian dream that fell into decay. Luckily it has been restored, and its gar... read more
With its grottoes, terraces and fountains, the Villa d'Este has arguably the finest garden of the Italian Renaissance. Stunning photographs of both villa and garden, with a text by the direc... read more
Bold building with timber, even in tall structures: Ban, the Japanese architect who won the Pritzker prize in 2014, also uses paper, adobe and other sustainable materials in innovative ways.... 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
Zervudachi did his first house aged 21, under the eye of David Mlinaric, and ever since has been creating interiors that are both chic and understated.
A tour of private spaces belonging to Nicky Haslam, Beata Heuman, Luke Edward Hall, and other such in-crowdish company. Irreverent and witty, VNL's previous work includes an early stint ass... read more
A gazeteer of 365 monuments in England and Wales - the finest that CBN has surveyed in his quarter-century of patiently traipsing about the countryside.
Bulmer's first book looks at seventeen houses he has worked on, including Althorp, Pitshill, Castle Howard and Broughton Hall, as well as buildings owned by English Heritage and the National... read more
Lavish book on this magnificent house, by its owner, now the thirteenth generation of Sackvilles. Knole appears in Woolf's Orlando as her protagonist's vast Elizabethan domain, more like a t... read more
From Pliny and Piranesi to Alexander Pope and John Piper: a magnificent wander through ruins with writers, travellers and artists, through their eyes and in their words. Arranged chronologic... read more
Gothic architecture, with its flying buttresses, pointed arches, tracery and large windows, is synonymous with the golden age of cathedral-building in Europe. The author (who shares her name... read more
From the publisher who bought us Cathryn Spence's gorgeous Nature's Favourite Child: Thomas Robins and the Art of the Georgian Garden, a new edition of the fascinating book on the architect ... read more
Riveting stories of projects that killed their architect, from a spire in C17th France to a theatre in 1920s' Washington. A marvellously Goreyesque subject.
Haussmann eat your heart out... these elegant watercolours and ink drawings are a boulevardier's delight. Accompanied by a text by a French ironmaster.