The Regency Style 1800 To 1830 (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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This is book a written at first-hand by someone who has made a close study, not only of Regency architecture as it exists today, but also of the writings of the architects, landscape-gardeners and theorists who were responsible for formulating the style. J.B. Papworth, James Malton, J.C. Loudon, Humphrey Repton, Sidney Smirke, Sir Joan Soane—these are a few of the contemporary designers whom Donald Pilcher quotes in his fascinating enquiry which, on account of its emphasis on town planning and on the marriage between town and country, has special relevance for us today.

There are chapters on inter alia, The Man of Taste, on The Landscape Garden, on Taste and Technique, and on Town and Country. The subject is one which lends itself peculiarly well to illustration, both from the colour-plate books of the time and from the magnificent villas, crescents, terraces and squares which remain to us as a legacy of the period. In all there are more than 130 of these illustrations and in them the Regency Style is mirrored with wonderful completeness as it maybe seen in London, Brighton, Cheltenham, Clifton, and in many a less well-known town besides. Pictures and text together provide the first modern evaluation of the permanent place of the Regency Style in the English architectural tradition.

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