Cottages ornés : the charms of the simple life /

Tracing the history of cottages ornes (ornamental cottages), this copiously illustrated volume offers an engaging survey of an often-overlooked architectural genre. An invention of mid-18th-century England, these cottages were designed to facilitate a more informal way of living and were built in di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: White, Roger, 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Rustic roots
  • Housing the peasants
  • An abstract of Eden : the middle-class/genteel cottage
  • Cottages to order : the role of the pattern book
  • The Regency heyday
  • The cottage of the Celtic fringes
  • The social apotheosis
  • The continental cottage orné
  • Distant shores
  • Postlude : the ornamental cottage in the Victorian era and after.