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Chatsworth, Arcadia, now : seven scenes from the life of an English country house / John-Paul Stonard ; photographs by Victoria Hely-Hutchinson ; foreword by The Duke & Duchess of Devonshire
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA7562 .S76 202
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stonard, John-Paul, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Devonshire, Dukes of--History.
- Devonshire, Dukes of.
- Chatsworth (England)--History.
- Chatsworth (England).
- Country homes--Decoration--England--Devon.
- Country homes.
- Architecture, Domestic--English influences.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture, Domestic--England--Devon.
- Interior decoration--England--Devon.
- Interior decoration.
- Physical Description:
- 379 pages : color photographs ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2022
- Summary:
- This stunning volume provides an enchanting visit to one of the most storied and beautiful English country houses. No place embodies the spirit of the English country house better than Chatsworth. From best-selling books such as Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire and Chatsworth: The House by Deborah Mitford, the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, American audiences have long been transfixed by this remarkable place and its extraordinary collection of art and decorative objects. Today, Chatsworth s facade is newly cleaned and its windows freshly gilded. The forward-looking current Duke of Devonshire, who likes to say that everything was new once, has redone the public and private rooms. This tour-de-force volume is his telling of the story of Chatsworth through seven historical periods accompanied by stunning photo-graphic portraits of the house, its collections, and the grounds. Chatsworth contains countless treasures from Nicolas Poussin s Et in Arcadia Ego and Antonio Canova s Endymion to seminal modern works by Lucian Freud and David Hockney. Though filled with works from different time periods, the collection represents the very best of the new from each artistic era.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in 2021 by Particular Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK" -- colophon
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Eden fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 084787141X
- 9780847871414
- OCLC:
- 1262799332
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