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The English Country House: From the Archives of Country Life (Country Life Magazine)
	Author: Mary Miers Creators: Jeremy Musson, Tim Richardson, Tim Knox, Marcus Binney Publisher: Rizzoli Category: Book List Price: ~~$85.00~~ Buy New: $53.52 as of 11/21/2009 04:59 EST details You Save: $31.48 (37%) Seller: allnewbooks Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 6817 Media: Hardcover Pages: 484 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.3 Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 11.3 x 1.5 ISBN: 0847830578 Dewey Decimal Number: 728.80942 EAN: 9780847830572 ASIN: 0847830578 Publication Date: October 6, 2009 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description The English Country House takes a look at the architecture and interiors of sixty-two stunning houses in a range of architectural styles spanning seven centuries—from the medieval Stokesay Castle to the newly built, Lutyens-inspired Corfe Farm—brought to life through the world-renowned photography library of Country Life. More than four hundred color and black and white illustrations provide an insight into the architecture, decoration, gardens, and landscape settings of these houses, which are set into their architectural and historical context by the accompanying text and extended captions. The book provides an entrée into the houses to which Country Life has had privileged access over the years, many of which are still private homes, often occupied by descendants of the families that built them. Punctuating the book at intervals in the form of booklets on rich, uncoated paper are six essays by leading British architectural historians that set the English country house into its social context and chart the changing tastes in decorating and collecting, the development of ancillary buildings, gardens and landscapes, and finally, its influence in the United States.

Customer Reviews: Glorious book October 18, 2009 Tacy Brooke (Philadelphia, PA) 10 out of 10 found this review helpful This is an absolute must for every Anglophile! The photographs are simply beautiful and the text informative and accurate. Not only for a coffee table, but for real study of teh architecture and history of each period. A stunning must-have for country house enthusiasts October 11, 2009 MartinP (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) 19 out of 19 found this review helpful I own a great number of books on English country houses, and adding a new one to the collection comes with an ever increasing risk of redundancy. Mary Miers, however, has succeeded in creating one of the most glorious books of its kind, and moreover one that consistently highlights houses that are passed over in other works. So don't expect to find Wilton, Chatsworth, Castle Howard or Blenheim in these pages. But do expect to find a great number of smaller and/or lesser known houses, revealed in loving detail and thus shown to be every bit as beautiful and interesting as their more famous neighbours. Some of these are in fact quite famous themselves, but for some reason hardly ever shown in books on country houses, such as Wrotham Park, which featured in a substantial number of TV-series and movies. The photography is quite simply superb and generously covers interiors, exteriors, outbuildings and gardens. There are atmospheric shots of dreamy Elizabethan manors, but there's also a breathtaking aerial view of Newby Hall. Interiors are naturally lit so that colours and atmosphere feel very true. Many of the rooms shown have inviting, lived-in look. Every image is well-considered, many are large-size, and all are razor-sharp. Houses are covered chronologically, from Elizabethan and Jacobean times right into the twentieth century. Texts are clear, brief and to the point. On several places in the book brief topical essays are bound in, printed on smaller size pages of a heavy, textured paper, which looks very classy indeed. These illuminating texts address such specific subjects as the country house interior or its garden. In all, an endless treasure trove (this is a brick of a book!) brimful of delights, that no country house enthusiast should miss! It may look pricey, but it's worth every penny. Put this on your coffee table and you won't have to think about a way to entertain your guests.

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