Author(s): Shaftsbury, Earl Of, Knox, Tim,
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 11/09/2018,
Pagination: 256 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Rizzoli International Publications,
Published By: Rizzoli International Publications,
Book Classification: Architecture, Interior design
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780847863204
Description: 

The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, 39-year-old Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, invites the reader into the house that his family has called home since the fifteenth century. In recent years, his award-winning restoration has brought the house back to life, transforming exquisite spaces that honour the past while being suited to twenty-first-century living.

English country-house splendour, through the hands of some of the world s top artisans and craftspeople, returns to the house in the form of re-created wallpapers, customized paints, revived furniture from the Georgian and Victorian periods, reworked antique Brussels tapestries, restored plasterwork and textiles, and a complete overhaul of the landscape, with its sunken garden, woodlands, avenue of beeches, lake, and shell-encrusted grotto.

With stories of noteworthy architecture, beautiful interiors, and centuries of a single family's involvement in British and world history, this book will appeal to devotees of country living, the aristocratic life, historic houses, and English interior design.