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The rebirth of an English country house : St Giles House

Shaftesbury, Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, Earl of, 1979- author, Knox, Tim, author

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The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, 39-year-old Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, invites the reader into the house that his family has called home since the fifteenth century. In recent years, his award-winning restoration has brought the house back to life, transforming exquisite spaces that honour the past while being suited to twenty-first-century living. English country-house splendour, through the hands of some of the world's top artisans and craftspeople, returns to the house in the form of re-created wallpapers, customized paints, revived furniture from the Georgian and Victorian periods, reworked antique Brussels tapestries, restored plasterwork and textiles, and a complete overhaul of the landscape, with its sunken garden, woodlands, avenue of beeches, lake, and shell-encrusted grotto. With stories of noteworthy architecture, beautiful interiors, and centuries of a single family's involvement in British and world history, this book will appeal to devotees of country living, the aristocratic life, historic houses, and English interior design.

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Subject: Barton, Justin / Saint Giles House (England) / St. Giles House (England) / Manors Conservation and restoration England Dorset. / Historic buildings England Dorset. / Nobility England History. / Nobility. / Historic buildings. / Manors Conservation and restoration. / Adelshaus / Architektur / Ausstattung / Fotografie / Herrenhaus / Innenarchitektur / Restaurierung / Dorset (England) History. / England. / England Dorset. / England / St Giles's House Wimborne St Giles
• ISBN: 0847863204, 9780847863204

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