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Cottages ornés : the charms of the simple life / Roger White.
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White, Roger, 1950-
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English
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
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271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
NA7560 .W49 2017
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Tracing the history of cottages ornes (ornamental cottages), this copiously illustrated volume offers an engaging survey of an often-overlooked architectural genre. An invention of mid-18th-century England, these cottages were designed to facilitate a more informal way of living and were built in different guises that range from royal and imperial cottages to the working-class lodges that still dot the English countryside. Analyzing cottage designs by some of the leading architects of late-Georgian England-including Robert Adam, John Soane, and John Nash-Roger White explores the aesthetic values that made the form so appealing. As he follows the development of cottages ornes from the Celtic fringes to the Continent and the British colonies, White reveals the significant impact of the genre on social, cultural, and political history and examines the influence of cottage design on the architectural developments of the Victorian period and even the 20th century.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Rustic roots
Housing the peasants
An abstract of Eden : the middle-class/genteel cottage
Cottages to order : the role of the pattern book
The Regency heyday
The cottage of the Celtic fringes
The social apotheosis
The continental cottage orné
Distant shores
Postlude : the ornamental cottage in the Victorian era and after.
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ISBN
9780300226775 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
0300226772 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016055767
OCLC
967336974
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