Strawberry Hill
By Anna Chalcraft and Judith Viscardi
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Online price: £25.00
This title is currently availableHardback, 160pp Published: 5th October 2007 Category: Architecture, Art and Design  |
Prettily illustrated and absorbing. - Evening Standard
It is difficult to imagine that the history of the house will ever be better traced than in beautifully produced and elegantly written book. It is an object lesson in how the biography of a house should be put together. - House & Garden
This book is the result of evident enthusiasm and commitment to its subject…it makes a significant contribution in underlining how Walpole orchestrated Strawberry Hill as a series of moods - an approach to interior design which remains highly resonant today. - Architectural Review
Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's 'Little play-thing house', became one of the wonders of the 18th-century architectural world. The authors take us round the house (now being restored) and room by room reveal the theatrical planning, the deliberate contrasts of light and colour and the love of drama invested in every detail of th building, its decoration and its furniture. The book is illustrated with photographs and with many of the engravings Walpole himself commissioned.
160 pages
100 colour photographs
