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Exhibition reviews : \Ruin lust\
The exhibition \"Ruin lust\" at the Tate Britain in London, England, on March 4-May 18, 2013, is reviewed. It featured British artists themes of ruin and decay with paintings and engravings by such artists as John Martin and Laura Oldfield Ford.
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The drawing room : English country house decoration
A highly detailed look at the most accomplished English country house interiors, exemplifying English decorating at its best. The English drawing room, a formal place within a house of status where family and honored guests could retire from the more public arena, is one of the most important rooms in an English country house, and thus great attention has been paid to preserving the decoration of this most elegant of spaces: the center of life in the English countryside and the epitome of English country house decoration. This book offers privileged access to fifty of the finest drawing rooms of country houses and historic townhouses--many still in private hands--including Althorp, Attingham, and Knepp Castle. Through these sumptuous rooms, readers experience a history of English decorating from the sixteenth century to the present day, including the work of design legends such as David Hicks, Nancy Lancaster, John Fowler, and David Mlinaric. Specially commissioned photographs capture the entirety of each room, as well as details of furniture, architectural elements, artwork, collections, and textiles, creating a visually seductive book that will inspire interior designers and homeowners interested in the widely popular classic English look.
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The Building Site in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Semple's specification for making lime mortar for St Patrick's Hospital is also quoted in full, and emphasises the labour-intensive process of turning and beating the matrix, while still in a semi-dry condition, to ensure the compaction of the materials. Gibney's research on the various disciplines within the skilled artisan building world of Ireland in the eighteenth century, has led to a book dense with original material from this rich but under explored field. The status and organisation of builders and craftsmen was in a state of change in this period, between the almost feudal arrangements of the guilds in the seventeenth century to the highly capitalised world of the building industry in the early nineteenth century (served by a new class of professional architects and general contractors). The Building Site in Eighteenth Century Ireland elucidates a period of creativity and industry, which is associated with many of the finest country houses, public works, and Dublin city squares and terraces, and gives us a working history of the highly-trained and versatile builders and craftsmen who constructed them.
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