This special edition revives an acclaimed work. Exquisite photographs showcase England's finest
buildings guiding the reader through five centuries of English architecture and interior
design. In this new special edition of a cult classic work photographer Derry Moore and
interior designer David Mlinaric take readers on a panoramic tour inside some of Britain's
finest buildings guiding them through five centuries of English interior design. Mlinaric's
informed text and Moore's perceptive photographs present the best examples of both public and
private buildings-from 16th-century Haddon Hall Chastleton and Knole to 17th-century Hatfield
and Wilton Houghton Hall and Syon House from the 18th century Apsley House the Palace of
Westminster and Waddesdon Manor from the nineteenth and 20th-century examples including
Charleston and the Apollo Victoria Theatre. The work of British masters including Inigo Jones
William Kent and Robert Adam as well as of influential 20th-century tastemasters such as Nancy
Lancaster Pauline de Rothschild and David Hicks is revealed in striking photographs and
authoritative texts. Anglophiles armchair tourists and lovers of grand interiors will relish
the photographs of these wonderful buildings while discovering more about the designers and
architects who built them charting the evolution that has made British style so alluring
enduring and widely imitated over the centuries.
