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Clouds: Biography of a Country House Hardback - 1993

by Caroline Dakers

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This book is essentially a study of British aristocratic and artistic patronage of the arts in the under-explored period after 1850, approached through an intensive look at a single house - Clouds, known as the house of the age. It was built by the glamorous and unconventionally gifted Percy and Madeline Wyndham, and designed by Philip Webb, one of Britain's greatest architects. It became one of the centres of artistic and political life in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and set the style for a whole generation of country house living. Dakers recreates the atmosphere and the lives lived in the house, the personalities of its three generations of Wyndham owners, and the succession of distinguished guests drawn to it - Henry James, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Kipling, Whistler and Lord Alfred Douglas, amongst many others. She tracks the decline in the tradition of aristocratic patronage through a decline in the fortunes of Clouds itself - by the 1930s, the palace of art was a vast white elephant, and the house was sold to an institution, its treasures dispersed and its structure dynamited into a more usable space.

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  • Title Clouds: Biography of a Country House
  • Author Caroline Dakers
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  • Publication date October 27, 1993
  • ISBN 9780300057768 / 0300057768
  • Weight 2.6 lbs (1.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.36 x 7.93 x 1.31 in (26.31 x 20.14 x 3.33 cm)
  • Category Architecture
  • Library of Congress subjects Clouds (East Knoyle, England), Webb, Philip - Criticism and interpretation
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93013472
  • Dewey Decimal Code 728.809

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Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Small 4to. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped blue cloth over boards, pp. (xviii), 278, Notes, Index, extensively illustrated. "Designed by Philip Webb... this country house in Wiltshire was commissioned by Percy and Madeline Wyndham, an aristocratic couple with a sophisticated taste in design." Covers have some scuffs, light wear at corners, spine slightly cocked. In an illustrated dust jacket that is bumped at corners and spine ends, has a price sticker on back. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 12 oz. Category: Architecture; Genealogy & Local History. ISBN: 0300057768. ISBN/EAN: 9780300057768. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014158. . 9780300057768
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