Edwin Lutyens. Country Houses (Country Life)
by Gavin Stamp
from Aurum Press Ltd
Born in 1869, Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens opened his own office in London when he was only 20 years old and began his career with a series of opulent country houses. The architect of such important commissions as the British Embassy in Washington D.C., in 1925, and the plan for New Delhi, the new capital of British India, in 1912, Lutyens continued throughout his career to design houses in which the vernacular manner adopted by Philip Webb and Norman Shaw in the previous century was developed with originality and wit and with remarkable formal control. As an upholder of the classical language of architecture, Lutyen's achievement was not always appreciated by a younger generation of architects inspired by the modern movement, but the sheer beauty of materials and construction and the inventive handling of historical styles offered by Lutyen's houses makes his contribution to early-20th-century domestic architecture on a par with that of his contemporaries Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Gavin Stamp, an expert on the architecture of Lutyens, presents 22 houses illustrated with exquisite duotone photographs culled from the archives of the great British magazine Country Life. Most of the photographs date from before World War I and show the houses as their architect intended they should look and performing as they were designed to perform, before the kitchens were modernized, the gardens simplified, and the interiors compromised to accord with modern tastes.
Domestic Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens
by A.S.G. Butler
from Antique Collectors Club Dist A/C
Edwin Lutyens , one of the most famous architectural names of the twentieth century, died in 1944. As a memorial three large volumes of his drawings were commissioned from the thousands found in his office, and were published by Country Life . This first volume contains his own plans, elevations and copious details of the finest examples of his domestic buildings, on which his huge reputation principally rests; the other two volumes covered his work on corporate and public buildings. But it is the wonderfully inspirational development of his love for the old houses of Surrey - that he shared with his friend and client Gertrude Jekyll - that strikes such a warm response and results in a constant demand for this particular volume. It was not always so. The work of selecting the drawings took so long that by the time the print run had to be decided the Modern Movement had become popular and Lutyens' work looked distinctly old-fashioned. The result was that barely more copies were printed than would
Houses and Gardens by E L Lutyens
by Lawrence Weaver
from Antique Collectors Club Dist A/C
Sir Edward Lutyens became the best known British architect of the early part of the 20th century. This book embodies the quintessence of the man and his work; the variety of style and design seen in the houses featured brings together in one volume the many strands of Lutyen's fertile mind. Complementary to the work of the architect is Lawrence Weaver's leisurely 'saunter' round the houses and gardens - an effect created by the use of many detailed and cleverly composed photographs.
Gardens of a Golden Afternoon: The Story of a Partnership, Edwin Lutyens & Gertrude Jekyll
The Architect and His Wife
by Jane Ridley
from Chatto and Windus
A lively new biography of the greatest English architect since Christopher Wren.
Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944) designed the Cenotaph in Whitehall, vast Imperialist buildings in India (including much of New Delhi), Queen Mary’s dolls’ house and Hampstead Garden Suburb. But his greatest heritage is the traditional Edwardian country house. This is the full biography of this witty, complex man who had little formal education, loved jokes and hated growing up. It was authorized by his last surviving daughter, Mary, who died last year.
Houses and gardens by Sir Edwin Lutyens, R.A.;
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, 1869-1944: A bibliography (Architecture series : Bibliography)
Edwin Lutyens: Architect Laureate
Six great architects: Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, the Adam Brothers, John Nash, Sir Edwin Lutyens
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