Romantic English Homes is an inspirational collection of truly
timeless houses.
Romantic English Homes is an inspirational collection of truly
timeless houses.
Ever since the first milords embarked on a Grand Tour in the seventeenth
century, the passion for developing collections has been a national
trait of England. As a result, the country's aristocratic palaces became
repositories of treasure gathered from around the globe. But so too,
thanks to the spread of an Empire providing goods from across the globe,
did almost every residence in England. Romantic English Homes features
14 such houses. Large or small, old or new, they all convey an
impression of massed objects intentionally mingling styles and tastes,
the classical placed next to the gothic, tartan pattern competing with
floral print. Decorated with defiant eclecticism, the buildings featured
here indicate that although the Empire may have gone, the English love
of collecting remains as strong as ever. Criss-crossing the country,
from Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall to East Anglia and Suffolk, from London
to Lancashire and Shropshire, it is both the romantic timelessness of
these properties and their many-layered appearance that makes them so
alluring.
