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Michael Hall is a noted architectural historian and the editor of Apollo magazine. A former architectural editor and deputy editor of Country Life, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a trustee of Emery Walker's Arts and Crafts house and Chairman of the Victorian Society's activities committee. His books include Waddesdon Manor: The Heritage of a Rothschild House and The English Country House: From the Archives of Country Life 1897–1939.
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Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $65.00
The great English country house tradition reached its apotheosis in the nineteenth century. Designed by all the most eminent architects of the age, houses constructed during this period were larger, more elaborate, and more lavishly furnished than ever before, and they became famous throughout Europe and America for their luxury, technological... Read more >
