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Chatsworth is one of England's ten most visited great houses. In this tour of the house, Deborah Duchess of Devonshire takes the reader into the private as well as the public rooms, and goes behind the scenes to explain the management of the household and the work of the staff needed to keep it going. To visit the Chatsworth website click here

Life of a Mansion tells the story of the building that Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum calls home. It details how Andrew Carnegie's grand but functional Fifth Avenue mansion--which was pioneering in its design, with an electric elevator and modern steel-frame construction--was constructed. The book features the rooms in which Carnegie conducted his business and philanthropic endeavors, and where the family and staff lived and entertained throughout the mid-twentieth century. It also sur...

Es wird in diesem Buch der Versuch unternommen, die verstreuten, sehr individuellen Forschungsaktivitaten zur Architekturgeschichte in zwei Regionen des Ostseeraumes - Pommern und Mecklenburg - in der Zeit von 1850 bis 1900 zu sammeln und der OEffentlichkeit vorzustellen. Funfzehn Autoren aus Polen und Deutschland widmen sich Themen des Bauens von oeffentlichen Gebauden, des Stadtebaus, der Denkmalpflege, des Kirchenbaus, der Schloss- und Baderarchitektur. Es wird deutlich, dass hier eher histor...

This is the first book in the UK to be devoted to historic floors. It introduces an important and largely neglected subject and considers conservation methods in a European context. It traces the history of some of the great floors of Europe from the fourth century B.C. and outlines the development of mosaic, tiles, marble and parquetry floors in secular buildings. The early Christian pavements in basilicas, temples and cathedrals, the creation of medieval tiles, ledger stones and monumental bra...

Includes essays by Olivia Alison, John Bryan, Ashley Callahan, Edward J. Cashin, Dale L. Couch, Louis De Vorsey, Chester V. DePratter, Paula W. Locklair, Sue M. Moore, and Daina L. Ramey.

Skate parks in abandoned industrial zones, ponies grazing alongside the former Berlin Wall, flea markets in empty warehouses, music and fashion shows in hard-to-rent retail locations and climbing walls in development niches--scarcely a city in Europe has made such radically widespread use of "temporary use" projects as has Berlin in the last few decades. The idea of temporary use--which has been defined as "activity in spaces currently unsuitable or undesirable in mainstream economic cycles"--is...

This well-illustrated book offers an up-to-date synthesis of the field of historic preservation, cast as a social campaign concerned with the condition, treatment and use of the legacy of existing properties in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of research, experience and scholarship over the last fifty years, it allows us to re-think past and current ideas in preservation, challenging readers to explore how their own interests lie within the cognitive framework of the activities taking...

Chevening stands in a magnifi cent park below the wooded escarpment of the North Downs in Kent. It has a history dating back around 800 years, but the house we see today is almost entirely the creation of seven generations of the Stanhope family, building on the original Inigo Jones house of 1630. For 250 years the Stanhopes served their country as soldiers and statesmen, and at Chevening as patrons of architecture and art. This new guide highlights the contributions of the Earls and Countesses...

From the 1870s to the 1920s, British-born architect Alfred Giles designed everything from simple domestic residences and showy mansions to county courthouses and commercial structures throughout Texas and northern Mexico. He was highly regarded at the time for adapting and combining stylistic elements with sobriety and simplicity. This book highlights his restored buildings, with an appendix devoted to his work in Mexico. Included are color photographs of these restorations taken by architect Eu...

Bastrop, Texas: a picturesque community of modest size located at the edge of the Lost Pines Forest in Central Texas. Yet, from its vantage point on the banks of the Colorado River, this town boasts 131 sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying the community for its label: “Most Historic Small Town in Texas.”In Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas, local historians and researchers Robbie Moore Sanders and Sandra Chipley have collected the stories behind nearly a hundred of...

The book describes the story of Clarte, Le Corbusier's first apartment building, continuing the narrative into the 21st century. The steel skeleton building completed in Geneva in 1930/1932 is a prototype of the Moderne style and a precursor of the Unite d'Habitation. The building was neglected for many decades and not listed as a historic building until the 1990s. In 2007 the external envelope was repaired as the first step, followed by refurbishment of the interior, in which building preser...

Countless books have been published on the historical sites of the Hudson River Valley. But these books have focused over and over again on the best-known, best-preserved places. Every bit as valuable are dozens of other historical sites that haven't fared as well. Many of these buildings are listed on the National Register of Historical Places, and a few are even National Historical Landmarks. But in spite of their significance, these structures have been allowed to decay, and in some cases, to...

Besonders durch Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagens Publikation Minnesinger (1838) wurde der mittelalterliche Minnesang im Zeitalter der Romantik in Kunst und Literatur wiederentdeckt, und dessen Inhalte gelangten zu neuer Blute. 1855 malte Moritz von Schwind im Auftrage Grossherzog Carl Alexanders von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach wahrend der Rekonstruktion der Wartburg dort sein beruhmtes Sangerkriegsfresko. Der Meister bringt in der Mittelgruppe des Bildes - der Szene zwischen Landgrafin Sophie und H...