A privileged invitation into a world of beauty--from a seventeenth-century Italian palace and retreats in the Swiss Alps and Morocco to artists' studios and noble residences in Austria and Spain. Simon Watson takes the reader into highly personal environments that reveal the creativity and personality of their esteemed inhabitants.
In 'Decorating in the Grand Manor', decorator Carleton Varney brings together his best and biggest design projects from over forty years in the interior design business.
This book presents an overview of Dublin's mass-housing building boom from 1935 to 1975 for the first time. Rowley examines how and why this endeavour occurred: from national political and economic shifts, to the influence of post-war reconstruction programmes in Britain.