Screen LibraryThe rebirth of an English country house : St Giles House /
The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, 39-year-old Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, invites the reader into the house that his family has called home since the fifteenth century. In recent years, his award-winning restoration has brought the house back to life, transforming exquisite spaces that honour the past while...
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Rizzoli,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, 39-year-old Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, invites the reader into the house that his family has called home since the fifteenth century. In recent years, his award-winning restoration has brought the house back to life, transforming exquisite spaces that honour the past while being suited to twenty-first-century living. English country-house splendour, through the hands of some of the world's top artisans and craftspeople, returns to the house in the form of re-created wallpapers, customized paints, revived furniture from the Georgian and Victorian periods, reworked antique Brussels tapestries, restored plasterwork and textiles, and a complete overhaul of the landscape, with its sunken garden, woodlands, avenue of beeches, lake, and shell-encrusted grotto. With stories of noteworthy architecture, beautiful interiors, and centuries of a single family's involvement in British and world history, this book will appeal to devotees of country living, the aristocratic life, historic houses, and English interior design. |
| Carrier Form: | 253 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), 1 music ; 29 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780847863204 0847863204 |
| Index Number: | NA7625 |
| CLC: | TU241.1-095.61 |
| Call Number: | TU241.1-095.61/S525 |
| Contents: | Foreword / Jenny Chesher -- Introduction -- An inheritance -- The house. Phase 1 (The roof ; The external walls ; The family room ; The kitchen ; The study ; The small dining room ; Green room ; The hall & landing ; The Marlborough room & bathroom ; The Cecil room & bathroom ; The Handel room & bathroom) ; Phase 2 (The attic ; Library ; The south drawing room ; The north drawing room ; The tapestry room ; The stone hall ; Great dining room ; The Daimler) ; Phase 2B (The north tower & loggia ; The entrance hall ; The white hall ; The Japan room & bathroom) -- The landscape. The sunk garden ; The beech avenue ; Grotto ; The lake, culvert & bridges ; Castellated arch -- The family / Tim Knox -- Epilogue -- Photographing St. Giles House / Justin Barton -- Evolution of St. Giles House. |