Main entry:

Girouard, Mark, 1931-2022.

Title & Author:

Town and country / Mark Girouard.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1992.

Description:

274 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index.
Introduction: Something of Myself -- I. The Town. 1. Coffee at Slaughter's: English Art and the Rococo. 2. The Baiting of Burghley: Politics and Architecture in Stamford. 3. Country-Town Portfolio: An Artist in Bridgwater. 4. Local Government in Spitalfields. 5. 'What a place is Whitby grown'. 6. The Birth of a Seaside Resort. 7. Pipe-Dreams in Manchester -- II. Irish Interlude. 1. A Country-House Childhood. 2. Belvedere and the Wicked Earl. 3. Miss Smith Comes to Tipperary. 4. Modernising an Irish Country House. 5. The Noblest Quay in Europe -- III. Country-House Excursions. 1. The Haynes Grange Room. 2. Solomon's Temple in Nottinghamshire. 3. Reconstructing Holdenby. 4. The Ghost of Elizabethan Chatsworth. 5. Country-House Pictures. 6. The Magic of Stowe. 7. What is a Villa? 8. The House and the Natural Landscape: A Prelude to Fallingwater -- IV. Jane Austen's World. 1. The Georgian House.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In this collection of essays and articles best selling author Mark Girouard writes of places he has visited in town and country. Mixing erudition with anecdote, he offers fascinating insights into both buildings and their inhabitants. He tells how he first became interested in architecture, describes the country houses which he visited as a boy, provides an authoritative interpretation of the origins of English rococo art, analyzes the formation of an English seaside.
Resort, recreates the Georgian architecture and polite society of Jane Austen's world, and traces changing attitudes toward the landscape in architecture from eighteenth-century Britain to twentieth-century America. Old Slaughter's Coffee-House in the mid-eighteenth century; Holdenby, an Elizabethan great house built by a royal favourite who was called by one of his contemporaries "a mere vegetable of the court that sprung up at night and sank again at noon"; Belvedere.
The eighteenth-century Irish country house that was witness to a tragic story of adultery and revenge: these are just a few of the buildings described by Girouard in these delightful essays on architecture and society in bygone eras in England and Ireland. Written with his customary wit and elegance, this collection of Girouard's finest essays illuminates not only architecture and social history but also the man who has explored both with such elan.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300051859
9780300051858

Subject:

Architecture England Miscellanea.
Architecture Ireland Miscellanea.
Architecture Angleterre Miscellanées.
Architecture Irlande Miscellanées.
Architecture
Architektur
Bildband
Geschichte
Städtebau
England
Ireland
Großbritannien
GroÇbritannien.
Architecture History
Great Britain

Form/genre:

miscellanies.
Trivia and miscellanea
Miscellanées.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 72218
Call No.: ID:92-B1110
Status: Available