Author: Hilary J. Grainger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904965312
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sir Ernest George (1839-1922) was one of England's greatest architects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He specialised in domestic work and was responsible for beautiful and imaginative houses in both town and country, and with his three successive partners, he carried out over 200 works both in Britain and abroad. He was also a watercolourist of considerable stature whose work in the medium was acclaimed in his own time. This richly illustrated book is the first study of the man and his work and will establish him as one of the major names in his profession. His life and career is fully documented, the buildings are described and a full catalogue of works is provided. A special feature is a study of pupils and assistants who passed through George's office, including several who went on to be famous and successful - Edwin Lutyens, Guy Dawber, J. J. Joass, R. Weir Schultz - and also the first woman to be become a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Ethel Mary Charles. Hilary Grainger is a dean at the London College of Fashion and is the recognised expert on George and his architecture. She is also a leading authority on the architecture of cremation and is the chair of the Victorian Society.
The Architecture of Sir Ernest George
Author: Hilary J. Grainger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904965312
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sir Ernest George (1839-1922) was one of England's greatest architects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He specialised in domestic work and was responsible for beautiful and imaginative houses in both town and country, and with his three successive partners, he carried out over 200 works both in Britain and abroad. He was also a watercolourist of considerable stature whose work in the medium was acclaimed in his own time. This richly illustrated book is the first study of the man and his work and will establish him as one of the major names in his profession. His life and career is fully documented, the buildings are described and a full catalogue of works is provided. A special feature is a study of pupils and assistants who passed through George's office, including several who went on to be famous and successful - Edwin Lutyens, Guy Dawber, J. J. Joass, R. Weir Schultz - and also the first woman to be become a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Ethel Mary Charles. Hilary Grainger is a dean at the London College of Fashion and is the recognised expert on George and his architecture. She is also a leading authority on the architecture of cremation and is the chair of the Victorian Society.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904965312
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sir Ernest George (1839-1922) was one of England's greatest architects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He specialised in domestic work and was responsible for beautiful and imaginative houses in both town and country, and with his three successive partners, he carried out over 200 works both in Britain and abroad. He was also a watercolourist of considerable stature whose work in the medium was acclaimed in his own time. This richly illustrated book is the first study of the man and his work and will establish him as one of the major names in his profession. His life and career is fully documented, the buildings are described and a full catalogue of works is provided. A special feature is a study of pupils and assistants who passed through George's office, including several who went on to be famous and successful - Edwin Lutyens, Guy Dawber, J. J. Joass, R. Weir Schultz - and also the first woman to be become a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Ethel Mary Charles. Hilary Grainger is a dean at the London College of Fashion and is the recognised expert on George and his architecture. She is also a leading authority on the architecture of cremation and is the chair of the Victorian Society.
The Architects and Architecture of London
Author: Kenneth Allinson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0750683376
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The guide explains why London is the way it is. It helps you link the historical and contemporary into a single pattern of significant places, spaces and buildings. It highlights old and new as a lively and vibrant pattern of on-going creative activity rooted in established urban patterns.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0750683376
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The guide explains why London is the way it is. It helps you link the historical and contemporary into a single pattern of significant places, spaces and buildings. It highlights old and new as a lively and vibrant pattern of on-going creative activity rooted in established urban patterns.
Saved from the Flames
Author: Roger Willoughby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781870192750
Category : Fire extinction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781870192750
Category : Fire extinction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Streets with a Story
Author: Eric A. Willats
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951187104
Category : Islington (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951187104
Category : Islington (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Pottery and Porcelain in Colonial Williamsburg's Archaeological Collections
Author: Ivor Noël Hume
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN: 9780910412070
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A review of the pottery and porcelain found in Williamsburg, with a summary of the wares and their datable characteristics.
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN: 9780910412070
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A review of the pottery and porcelain found in Williamsburg, with a summary of the wares and their datable characteristics.
The Tastemakers
Author: Diana Davis
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066412
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An examination of the development, role, and influence of the British decorative art dealers who invented an Anglo-Gallic style for elite interiors. In this volume Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism, Davis repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from ancien régime France into cherished “antiques” and, equally, as creators of new and modified French-inspired furniture, bronze work, and porcelain. The resulting old, new, and reconfigured objects merged aristocratic French eighteenth-century taste with nineteenth-century British preference, and they were prized by collectors, who displayed them side by side in palatial interiors of the period. The Tastemakers analyzes dealer-made furnishings from the nineteenth-century patron’s perspective and in the context of the interiors for which they were created, contending that early dealers deliberately formulated a new aesthetic with its own objects, language, and value. Davis examines a wide variety of documents to piece together the shadowy world of these dealers, who emerge center stage as a traders, makers, and tastemakers.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066412
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An examination of the development, role, and influence of the British decorative art dealers who invented an Anglo-Gallic style for elite interiors. In this volume Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism, Davis repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from ancien régime France into cherished “antiques” and, equally, as creators of new and modified French-inspired furniture, bronze work, and porcelain. The resulting old, new, and reconfigured objects merged aristocratic French eighteenth-century taste with nineteenth-century British preference, and they were prized by collectors, who displayed them side by side in palatial interiors of the period. The Tastemakers analyzes dealer-made furnishings from the nineteenth-century patron’s perspective and in the context of the interiors for which they were created, contending that early dealers deliberately formulated a new aesthetic with its own objects, language, and value. Davis examines a wide variety of documents to piece together the shadowy world of these dealers, who emerge center stage as a traders, makers, and tastemakers.
Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825
Author: David Dobson
Publisher: Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Seven volumes of lists of Scottish immigrants to North America between 1625 and 1825.
Publisher: Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Seven volumes of lists of Scottish immigrants to North America between 1625 and 1825.
An Introduction to English Glassware to 1900
Author: Charles Truman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Drawn to Trouble
Author: Eric Hebborn
Publisher: Mainstream Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Described as the maker of the finest art fakes of the 20th century, Eric Hebborn's work has fooled the experts at Sotheby's and Christie's and now hangs in many of the most famous art collections in the world.
Publisher: Mainstream Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Described as the maker of the finest art fakes of the 20th century, Eric Hebborn's work has fooled the experts at Sotheby's and Christie's and now hangs in many of the most famous art collections in the world.
Mid-Georgian London
Author: Hugh Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description