William Kent and the English idyll – The Quest for Nature
William Kent English architect, interior designer, painter & landscape architect ‘leaped the fence’ & saw all nature was a garden’ & designed the perfect house
3rd Earl Burlington
What Is: Palladian Style, More than a Villa in the Veneto?
16th century architect Andrea Palladio contributed to the classical language of architecture providing an emotional experience with his villas in the Veneto
Favourite Books – Andrea Palladio, The Architect in his Time
Professor Bruce Boucher’s scholarly and accessible work, Andrea Palladio, The Architect in his Time was first published in 1994 in a ‘user friendly version’…to fit comfortably into a suitcase or backpack for a quick trip to Vicenza, the scene of many of Palladio’s triumphant works in architecture. Don’t know about…