The twentieth century house in Britain : from the archives of Country life
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Type of record: Book
Title: The twentieth century house in Britain : from the archives of Country life
Other titles: 20th century house in Britain; Country life (London, England)
Classmark: Bedford Collection D230
Creator(s): Powers, Alan (1955-)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Aurum Press
Publication city: London
Date(s): 2004
Language: English
Size and medium: 192 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/719130
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019744049305181
Description
Illustrations on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (page 191) and index.
Forgetting the future: 1920-30 -- Building politics: 1930-40 -- Perfectly modest: 1950-60 -- The space age: 1960-70 -- Individual choice: 1970-90 -- Differing views: 1990-2000.
Since its foundation in 1897, Country Life has consistently featured new British houses, thus building up an unrivalled photographic archive on twentieth-century architecture, and one that covers a much wider variety of houses than any other. This archive forms the basis for Alan Powers' new study of twentieth-century houses, illustrated with 200 stunning colour and duotone photographs, some of which are reproduced here for the first time. The book is divided into chronological chapters covering the 1920s to the 1990s, preceded by an enlightening introductory essay on the changing nature of architectural style over the course of the century. Both town and country houses are included, as well as remodellings of earlier buildings where the result has a clear twentieth-century character, such as London's glorious Eltham Palace.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at D230: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HE/85.
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