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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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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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.