'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common …
Politics has always been at the heart of the English country house, in its design and construction, as well as in the activities and experiences of those who lived in and visited …
An armchair discovery tour of truly remarkable places, captured in SJ Axelby's inimitable watercolours. This follow-up volume to SJ Axelby's Interior Portraits transports the …
A classic account of the villa-from ancient Rome to the twentieth century-by "e;the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture"e; (Architect's …
A dark murder. A secret brought to light...June, 1797. From his headquarters at the Villa Mombello near Milan, the French revolutionary army's young general, one Napoleon …
The definitive guide to hundreds of Britain's most outstanding gardens, in the care of the National TrustThe National Trust has the finest collection of gardens in the United …
