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Knole: A Private View of One of Britain's Great Houses
Rizzoli Electa
ISBN13:
9780847872442
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The Sackvilles have inhabited Knole, one of Britains greatest houses, for more than four hundred years. Robert Sackville-West, the thirteenth generation of the family, takes the reader on a personal tour of this calendar house, with its legendary 365 rooms, fifty-two staircases, and seven courtyards. Sumptuous photographs by designer Ashley Hickswho recently photographed the interiors of Buckingham Palacecapture the smoldering spirit of Knole, from the state rooms, which house possibly the finest collection of royal Stuart furniture in the world, to the private apartments and gardens to the behind-the-scenes labyrinth of cellars and attics. Knole provides a window onto English history. The characters who populate the pagesthe grave Elizabethan statesman, the good-for-nothing gadabout at the seedy court of James I, the dashing cavalier, the Restoration rake, the 3rd Duke of the ancien régimeare all representative of their eras (members of a family described by Vita Sackville-West as a race too prodigal, too amorous, too weak, too indolent, and too melancholy). Vita's own disinheritance from Knole prompted her dear friend Virginia Woolf to pen Orlando, furthering the places fame and glamorous luster. Similarly, the architectural and decorative features of the house illustrate the different tastes of successive ages, from Thomas Sackvilles seventeenth-century makeover of a ramshackle medieval mansion to an early twentieth-century suite of rooms designed in the Bloomsbury style. Knole has never been illuminated in this way before.
- | Author: Robert Sackville-West
- | Publisher: Rizzoli Electa
- | Publication Date: Oct 11, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0847872440
- | ISBN-13: 9780847872442
- Author:
- Robert Sackville-West
- Publisher:
- Rizzoli Electa
- Publication Date:
- Oct 11, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 256 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0847872440
- ISBN-13:
- 9780847872442