by Marcus Binney (Author)
Marcus Binney has spent 40 years looking for beautiful and little known country houses to write about in Country Life and The Times. Most books on country houses are based on properties regularly open to the public but this book is different, it is full of dream houses which have remained quietly in family ownership for centuries and which only surface to public gaze when they come on the market. Marcus has had the great good fortune to explore and photograph them from attic to basement and to subsequently write about their charms - eccentric owners, setting, gardens and grounds, architecture, interiors and domestic comforts. The result is a privileged glimpse of some of the most beautiful and largely unknown houses in the British Isles, in Ireland and the Channel Islands and a tour through the domestic history of these islands.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 880
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 30 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 0297844555
ISBN 13: 9780297844556
Book Overview: Adapted largely from the celebrated 'House of the Week' column in The Times property section - about unknown gems in private hands seen for the first time as they come up for sale. At nearly 900 pages a huge doorstopper of a book - the perfect Christmas present in the mould of Simon Jenkins' England's Thousand Best Houses which sold over 50,000 copies at 30.