Cottages ornés : the charms of the simple life / Roger White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Roger, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cottages ornés.

Physical Description:

271 pages ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Tracing the history of cottages ornes (ornamental cottages), this copiously illustrated volume offers an engaging survey of an often-overlooked architectural genre. An invention of mid-18th-century England, these cottages were designed to facilitate a more informal way of living and were built in different guises that range from royal and imperial cottages to the working-class lodges that still dot the English countryside. Analyzing cottage designs by some of the leading architects of late-Georgian England-including Robert Adam, John Soane, and John Nash-Roger White explores the aesthetic values that made the form so appealing. As he follows the development of cottages ornes from the Celtic fringes to the Continent and the British colonies, White reveals the significant impact of the genre on social, cultural, and political history and examines the influence of cottage design on the architectural developments of the Victorian period and even the 20th century.

Contents:

Rustic roots

Housing the peasants

An abstract of Eden : the middle-class/genteel cottage

Cottages to order : the role of the pattern book

The Regency heyday

The cottage of the Celtic fringes

The social apotheosis

The continental cottage orné

Distant shores

Postlude : the ornamental cottage in the Victorian era and after.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300226775

0300226772

OCLC:

967336974