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Building beautiful : classical houses by John Simpson
- Title
- Building beautiful : classical houses by John Simpson / Clive Aslet.
- Author
- Aslet, Clive, 1955-
- Publication
- New York : Rizzoli, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- 222 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour); 32 cm
- Summary
- "New homes, featuring interiors, gardens, and furniture from London-based architect John Simpson, famed designer of the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace and one of the world's leading practitioners of New Classicism. Inviting, perfect in proportion, exquisite in detail--such are a few of the ways to describe homes designed by John Simpson. Well known for his work with the British royal family at Buckingham and Kensington palaces and for his buildings at Eton College in the U.K. and at the University of Notre Dame in the U.S., he is perhaps most brilliant at the level of the house and home. Building Beautiful is an invitation to enter the work of this master designer, as one might visit with a treasured friend. From a dream made real within a Venetian palazzo--a former seventeenth-century near-ruin, brought back to glorious, fancifully detailed life--to an English countryside cottage with a thatched roof, the featured homes are expressions of Simpson's unerring eye and extraordinary sense of beauty. Here we find drama in contrasts of scale and the seductive effects of light, where a cozy reading nook opens to an expansive living room with a double-height ceiling that nevertheless feels not overly large but rather just right. This is Simpson's subtle art--a mastery of scale, balance, and a pervading sense of elegance."--Amazon.ca.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs.
- Contents
- Foreword / by John Simpson -- Introduction -- Palazzo Grimani, Venice -- Belsize Park, London -- Harewell Hall, Wherwell, Hampshire -- Ashfold House, East Sussex -- 29 Great James Street, Bloomsbury -- Conclusion -- Postscript / by John Simpson.
- Call Number
- JQG 22-128
- ISBN
- 0847870634
- 9780847870639
- OCLC
- 1242026618
- Author
- Aslet, Clive, 1955- author.
- Title
- Building beautiful : classical houses by John Simpson / Clive Aslet.
- Publisher
- New York : Rizzoli, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JQG 22-128