- Chronicles a suite of 45 great country houses by Sir Edwin Lutyens,
one of Britain's most renowned and prolific Arts and Crafts master
architects- Celebrates Lutyens's originality by capturing how Lutyens
ingeniously blended the style of the Arts and Crafts movement with his
own inventive interpretation of the Classical language of architecture-
Provides a fresh interpretation of Lutyens's enduring architectural
genius through rigorous research, insightful overviews, valuable
narrative details, and comprehensive references- Brings together a rich,
full-color showcase of 575 all-new current photographs of the houses,
inside and outside, along with a superb selection of drawings and floor
plans- Expertly researched and written by architectural writer and
practitioner, David Cole, who also authored IMAGES' successful book The
Art and Architecture of C.F.A. Voysey SIR EDWIN LUTYENS is widely
regarded as one of Britain's greatest architects. In a career of over 50
years, spanning the Victorian, Edwardian and modern eras of
architecture, Lutyens was prolific. His work ranged from great country
houses, city commercial office buildings, his famous World War I
memorials across Europe and Britain, and his magnum opus designs for New
Delhi built during the 1920s and 1930s. Despite such diversity of
building types across his long career, Lutyens's most celebrated works
remain his country houses, which first established his reputation during
the 1890s. As Lutyens's practice flourished his work became widely
promoted in publications such as Country Life magazine, and his houses,
particularly those designed in the vernacular manner, would subsequently
give rise to an entire genre of the English country house that became
known, as it is to this day, as a 'Lutyens-style' house. Sir Edwin
Lutyens: The Arts and Crafts Houses brings together in new, wide-format,
full-color photography a definitive collection of 45 of Lutyens's great
Arts and Crafts houses, in which he ingeniously blended the style of the
Arts and Crafts movement with his own inventive interpretation of the
Classical language of architecture. The book features 575 all-new
current photographs of the houses, inside and outside, together with a
selection of floor plans of the houses, and a fresh interpretation of
Lutyens's enduring architectural genius.
