Edwin Lutyens: Country Houses

by Gavin Stamp

Book Overview

Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, was introduced by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his celebrated collaborator, to Edward Hudson, the founder of the great British magazineCountry Life, in 1889. Hudson thereafter did all he could to promote the work of a man he admired without reservation, commissioning Lutyens to design the magazine's offices in Covent Garden in 1904, as well as three country...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580930905
• ISBN13: 9781580930901
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 9.9" x 12.3"