Palaces, Chateaux, Country Houses

The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, 39-year-old Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, invites the reader into the house that his family has called home since the fifte...

Danson House (176266) is one of the finest surviving villas by the architect Robert Taylor (171488). Restrained, compact and ingeniously planned, i...

Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander has created a stunning coloring book with every detail rooted in the...

English novelist Anthony Trollope described Victoria's Western District squatters in the 1870s as 'plentiful, proud, prejudiced, given to hospitali...

This book tells the story of Shelburne Farms, once a magnificent Gilded Age country estate conceived by America s leading aristocrats of the day, L...

Country houses are becoming more popular as the urban stress rises around the globe - living in the countryside means giving a piece of peace back ...

Swimming pools: whether they look directly out over the sea or are set in a garden, whether they have a free form or are more geometrically shaped,...

The largely untold stories of innumerable, rather humble, lives spent ''in service'' are lying just below the surface of many great houses; the phy...

Elizabeth of Bohemia, known to some as the Winter Queen and to others as the Queen of Hearts, was one of those rare figures whose personality still...

A beautiful book of stunning images of the prettiest, most charming and best-loved Australian country homes, drawn from the pages of one of Austral...

Discover Britain's magnificent heritage of country houses in this lavishly illustrated guide to the architectural treasures of the United Kingdom. ...

'I tend to regard Renishaw as the mistress of my old age, beautiful, charming, moody and unpredictable.' -- Sir Reresby Sitwell. Renishaw Hall in D...

There is another William Morris. Not the William Morris of Arts and Crafts fame treasured for his ever-so-English wallpapers, fabrics and furniture...

Woburn Abbey: The Park and Gardens tells a fascinating story that illuminates both the history of English landscaping and the highs and lows of an ...