RO’B, aka The Irish Aesthete, that fount of knowledge, taste and carefully sifted old gossip, has chosen fifteen wildly different houses and interiors for this new book. His emphasis is on... read more
Though Royal Gardener to both Georges I and II and designer of gardens at Kensington Palace, Houghton and many other illustrious estates, Bridgeman's geometric taste and works were mostly ob... read more
Country houses were repositories of the finest food in the land, but their tables fell into decline around WW1. Chapters examine all parts of food production (including the game, fish, cerea... read more
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 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.
Recollections of a long career upstairs and downstairs at Blenheim, Mount Stewart and elsewhere.
Unfortunately this has been delayed until January 2023.
The two great cabinet-makers worked together for nearly half a century; their clientele and influence were on a par with those of their more famous contemporary, Thomas Chippendale. This mag... read more
What exactly is it that we preserve - and pay for - so carefully? Stourton looks at various parks, buildings and collections and charts two particular periods of conservation - the 1880s and... read more
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
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
The author cut her gardener's teeth in the gardens at Helmingham Hall, where she moved on her marriage in 1975. She now has a successful garden design company, Chelsea Gold medals to her nam... read more
Nancy L was Nancy A's niece: this book brings together their recipes from their Virginian home Mirador, also Cliveden - a mix of English, French and Southern dishes to tempt, repeatedly.
From Longleat to Cliveden, Tinniswood explores the ways in which the raffish and anti-hierarchical mood of the 1960s embraced the idea of the country house.
A fine illustrated celebration of 12 houses that have adapted successfully to the modern world: Doddington Hall, Burton Agnes, Loseley, Broughton, Madresfield, Grimsthorpe, Hopetoun, Inverar... read more