Georgian House Style Architectural InteriorIngrid Cranfield
•An exhibition centring on the spectacular light illuminations of the Georgian period has opened at Sir John Soane’s Museum.Georgian Illuminationscelebrates the light shows of the period and the impressive and the elaborate temporary architectural structures created for them, often designed by leading...
was “a structure at once perfectly fitted for its various uses; of great architectural beauty and elegance; and so expressive of the purposes for which it is erected, that it cannot by any possibility be mistaken for anything but what it is.” Unfortunately only twenty five years later it ...
Georgian House Style: Georgian House StyleAn Architectural and Interior Design Source Book (House Style): An Architectural and Interior Design Source BookIngrid Cranfield
Whatever its purpose, the architectural and artistic masterpiece was complemented by formal gardens which Lord Burlington, again, along with the aid of Kent, extensively altered to create a highly planned but naturalistic-looking landscape. Known as the “birthplace of the English Landscape Movement”...
The splendid architectural achievements of Sir Christopher Wren and his followers during the reigns of the three preceding Stuart monarchs were in the extravagant and monumental Baroque style of continental Europe, which the Whig aristocrats eventually judged to be of questionable taste. Thus, the new...