The Letters Of Edwin Lutyens To His Wife Lady Emily
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The Letters Of Edwin Lutyens To His Wife Lady Emily
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Author : Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 1985
The Letters Of Edwin Lutyens To His Wife Lady Emily written by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Architects categories.
The Letters Of Edwin Lutyens To His Wife Lady Emily
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Author : Edwin Lutyens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988-01-01
The Letters Of Edwin Lutyens To His Wife Lady Emily written by Edwin Lutyens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with Architects categories.
The Letters Of Edwin Lutyens To His Wife Lady Emily
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Author : Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 1985
The Letters Of Edwin Lutyens To His Wife Lady Emily written by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Architecture categories.
Edwin Lutyens
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Author : Jane Ridley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Edwin Lutyens written by Jane Ridley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Architecture categories.
The work of Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) includes the Cenotaph in Whitehall, much of Imperial New Delhi and especially his masterpiece, Viceroy's House (now Rashtrapati Bhavan), Queen Mary's dolls' house and Hampstead Garden Suburb. But his greatest heritage is the traditional Edwardian country house, an architectural style he made his own, using local materials and often working with Gertrude Jekyll who planted the gardens for his family homes. This is a full biography of a witty, complex personality, a man who had little formal education, who loved jokes and hated growing up. It is also a portrait of an extraordinary marriage. His wife, Emily, fell in love with Krishnamurti, 21 years her junior and believed to be the reincarnation of a god, and she thereafter spent her time and her husband's money promoting Theosophy, a Hindu-inspired cult. Lutyens's failure to find a common language with Emily possibly drove him to achieve the remarkable communication through the language of architecture which characterises his best work.
Sir Herbert Baker
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Author : John Stewart
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Sir Herbert Baker written by John Stewart and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with Architecture categories.
This is the first full biography from childhood of the eminent British Architect Sir Herbert Baker. Written with the full cooperation of his family and with access to his archive and private papers, it gives an account of his remarkable life as the leading architect to the British Empire. From London, through the commemoration of the empire's war dead in France, via South Africa and Australia to India, he celebrated the might of an empire that once ruled a quarter of the world. He was an intimate friend of many of most fascinating men of his age, including Cecil Rhodes, Lawrence of Arabia, John Buchan, Jan Smuts and, of course, his fellow architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. After a Victorian architectural apprenticeship in London and on to becoming the most prolific architect of his age in South Africa, he built the new imperial capital of New Delhi in India with Lutyens, before returning to London. These built or rebuilt such landmark buildings as the Bank of England, South Africa House, India House, Rhodes House, and the stands for Lords Cricket Ground, as well as numerous churches and private houses.
The Country House Revealed
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Author : Dan Cruickshank
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-07-31
The Country House Revealed written by Dan Cruickshank and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-31 with History categories.
Spanning the architectural history of the country house from the disarming Elizabethan charm of South Wraxall, the classical rigour of Kinross in Scotland, the majesty and ingenuity of Hawksmoor's Easton Neston, the Palladian sweep of Wentworth Woodhouse, with over 300 rooms and frontage of 600 feet, the imperial exuberance of Clandeboye, through to the ebullient vitality of Lutyens' Marshcourt, the stories of these houses tell the story of our nation. All are the are buildings of the greatest architectural interest, each with a fascinating human story to tell, and all remain private homes that are closed to the public. But their owners have opened their doors and allowed Dan Cruickshank to roam the corridors and rummage in the cellars as he teases out the story of each house - who built them, the generations who lived in them, and the families who lost them. Along the way he has uncovered tales of excess and profligacy, tragedy, comedy, power and ambition. And as these intriguing narratives take shape, Dan shows how the story of each house is inseparable from the social and economic history of Britain. Each one is built as a wave of economic development crests, or crumbles. Each one's architecture and design is thus expressive of the aims, strengths and frailties of those who built them. Together they plot the psychological, economic and social route map of our country's ruling class in a rich new telling of our island story.
The Architect And His Wife
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Author : Jane Ridley
language : en
Publisher: Random House UK
Release Date : 2002
The Architect And His Wife written by Jane Ridley and has been published by Random House UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
"This is a full biography of a witty, complex personality, a man who had little formal education, who loved jokes and hated growing up. It is also a portrait of an extraordinary marriage. His wife, Emily, fell in love with Krishnamurti, 21 years her junior and believed to be the reincarnation of a god, and she thereafter spent her time and her husband's money promoting Theosophy, a Hindu-inspired cult. Lutyens's failure to find a common language with Emily possibly drove him to achieve the remarkable communication through the language of architecture which characterises his best work."--BOOK JACKET.
Lady Constance Lytton
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Author : Lyndsey Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2015-03-12
Lady Constance Lytton written by Lyndsey Jenkins and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Lady Constance Lytton (1869-1923) was the most unlikely of suffragettes. One of the elite, she was the daughter of a Viceroy of India and a lady in waiting to the Queen. She grew up in the family home of Knebworth and in embassies around the world. For forty years, she did nothing but devote herself to her family, denying herself the love of her life and possible careers as a musician or a reviewer. Then came a chance encounter with a suffragette. Constance was intrigued; witnessing Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst on trial convinced her of the urgent necessity of votes for women and she went to prison for the cause as gleefully as any child going on a school trip. But, once jailed, Constance soon found that her name and her connections singled her out for unwelcome special treatment. By now, 1909, the suffragettes were hunger striking and the government had retaliated with force-feeding. The stories that began to leak out - of bungled operations, of dirty tubes, of screams half-heard through brick walls, of straitjackets and handcuff s - outraged the suffragettes. Constance decided on her most radical step yet: to go to prison in disguise. Taking the name Jane Warton, she cut her hair, put on glasses and ugly clothes and got herself arrested in Liverpool. Once in prison, she was force-fed eight times before her identity was discovered and she was released. Her case became a cause célèbre, with debate raging in The Times and questions being asked in the House of Commons. Lady Constance Lytton became an inspiration and, in the end, a martyr. In this extraordinary new biography, Lyndsey Jenkins reveals for the first time the fascinating story of the woman who abandoned a life of privilege to fight for women's rights.
Sir Edwin Lutyens
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Author : Clive Aslet
language : en
Publisher: Stylus Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2024-07-02
Sir Edwin Lutyens written by Clive Aslet and has been published by Stylus Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-02 with Architecture categories.
Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Edwardian country houses, surrounded by rhapsodic gardens, beguiled clients with their romance and wit. After 1918, the war memorials that he created symbolized a grieving nation's sense of loss. In the new capital of the British Raj, New Delhi, the Viceroy's House or Rashtrapati Bhavan had a footprint bigger than Versailles. His unfinished Liverpool Cathedral would have rivaled St Peter's in Rome. Intensely shy, Lutyens hid his personality behind puns and jokes - and yet he could be called "part mystic," a reference to an inner profundity. Rich in stories, this entertaining and stylish short biography is a major new study incorporating fresh research which shows this most charismatic of architects in a new light.
Women And Marriage In Nineteenth Century England
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Author : Mrs Joan Perkin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11-01
Women And Marriage In Nineteenth Century England written by Mrs Joan Perkin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-01 with History categories.
The 'bonds of matrimony' describes with cruel precision the social and political status of married women in the nineteenth century. Women of all classes had only the most limited rights of possession in their own bodies and property yet, as this remarkable book shows, women of all classes found room to manoeuvre within the narrow limits imposed on them. Upper-class women frequently circumvented the onerous limitations of the law, while middle-class women sought through reform to change their legal status. For working-class women, such legal changes were irrelevant, but they too found ways to ameliorate their position. Joan Perkin demonstrates clearly in this outstanding book, full of human insights, that women were not content to remain inferior or subservient to men.
