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Clouds : Biography of a Country House by Caroline Dakers 1993, Hardcover 25A3642
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- ISBN
- 9780300057768
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300057768
ISBN-13
9780300057768
eBay Product ID (ePID)
101861
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Clouds : Biography of a Country House
Subject
Buildings / Residential, General, Europe / Great Britain
Publication Year
1993
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Travel, Architecture
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
3 in
Item Weight
44.3 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
93-013472
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
728.8094231
Synopsis
This book is essentially a study of British aristocratic and artistic patronage of the arts in the under-explored period after 1850, approached through an intensive look at a single house - Clouds, known as the house of the age. It was built by the glamorous and unconventionally gifted Percy and Madeline Wyndham, and designed by Philip Webb, one of Britain's greatest architects. It became one of the centres of artistic and political life in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and set the style for a whole generation of country house living. Dakers recreates the atmosphere and the lives lived in the house, the personalities of its three generations of Wyndham owners, and the succession of distinguished guests drawn to it - Henry James, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Kipling, Whistler and Lord Alfred Douglas, amongst many others. She tracks the decline in the tradition of aristocratic patronage through a decline in the fortunes of Clouds itself - by the 1930s, the palace of art was a vast white elephant, and the house was sold to an institution, its treasures dispersed and its structure dynamited into a more usable space.
LC Classification Number
NA7333.E28D35 1993
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