Palaces, Chateaux, Country Houses

This beautifully illustrated book tells the stories behind 60 remarkable buildings chosen from the many thousands at National Trust properties acro...

'Excellent . . . Fresh, learned, readable and full of life' Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday Houses of Power is the result of Simon Thurley's thirty years...

A look into the tantalising secrets of Florence's Palazzo Rucellai. When Italian Renaissance professor Allison Levy takes up residency in the pala...

Marc Held entered history in 1965 with his famous Culbuto armchair, followed in 1966 by his furniture manufactured by Prisunic. Over a period of fi...

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotla...

This scenic stretch of estates along the Hudson offers some of the finest examples of American architecture and landscape design. The edition's thi...

Halls consummate history is not just the story of the evolution of one of the worlds great collections The book is also a through-the-keyhole insig...

An insiders tour of the magnificent seventeenthcentury castle and gardens, conceived by Le Vau, Le Brun, and Le Nôtre, that inspired the great chât...

A delightful journey through the glamorous story of the English country house party by the bestselling historian. Croquet. Parlour games. Cocktail...

Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Ven...

This book is a sumptuously produced journey around twelve privately owned country houses, asking what it is like to live in such places today. What...

Following the success of Abandoned Mansions of Ireland, Tarquin Blake documents more forgotten stately homes. These include Elsinore in County Slig...

A personal tour of twenty of the UKs most beguiling houses in this much loved area of western England. Author and architectural historian, Jeremy M...

From The Crown to Downton Abbey, the country house speaks to our fantasies of rustic splendour, style, and escape. Featuring three hundred photos f...

The Château de Versailles is a real photographic challenge because it is so huge: there is an infinite number of possible points of view and they a...