Palats & herrgårdar

Hellekis säteri på Kinnekulles västsida, bär på många historier. Även om de tar avstamp i det lokala, är de samtidigt delar av en större berättelse. Under flera hundra år har Hellekis ägare rört sig i samhällets övre skikt, där samhällsförändringa...

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Följ med på en spännande inblick i ett arkitektoniskt och unikt mästerverk, Nicodemus Tessin den yngres hem på Slottsbacken mitt i Stockholms hjärta. Palatsets fasad är inspirerad av italienska palats med en inredning i fransk barock av högsta kla...

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The Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual ho...

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A Place in Scotland is a collation of interior spaces that represent a rejuvenated Scottish vernacular that has emerged over the past twenty years. Something is happening in Scotland a new confidence and inspirational voices are redefining what &a...

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The Chteau de Versailles is a real photographic challenge because it is so huge: there is an infinite number of possible points of view and they are never the same, depending on the time of day, the weather or the season There are always new photo...

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"Husen som låg i vägen" handlar om den gamla kulturbygden och gårdarna mellan Norrköping och Kolmårdsbranten - Malmölandet och Kvillinge. En historisk miljö på Sveriges bästa åkermark, full av herresäten och dramatisk historia från vikin...

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Highclere Castle, known as 'the real Downton Abbey' bustles with activity at the best of times, but it is never more alive than at Christmas. Christmas at Highclere is a look behind the scenes at the routines and rituals that make the ca...

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Hampton Court Palace, to the south-west of London, is one of the most famous and magnificent buildings in Britain. The original palace was begun by Cardinal Wolsey, but it soon attracted the attention of his Tudor king and became the centre of roy...

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Julita gårds historia är unik och sträcker sig över mer än tusen år. Denna generöst illustrerade bok handlar om forntiden med vikingatidens storgård, medeltidens cistercienskloster, den äldre vasatidens kungsgård, 1600-talets järnbruk, 1700- och 1...

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Chinese wallpaper has been an important element of western interior decoration for three hundred years. As trade between Europe and China flourished in the seventeenth century, Europeans developed a strong taste for Chinese art and design. The stu...

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An insiders tour of the magnificent seventeenthcentury castle and gardens, conceived by Le Vau, Le Brun, and Le Ntre, that inspired the great chteaux of Europe. Vaux-le-Vicomtes rich history began in 1641, when infamous Finance Minister Nicolas Fo...

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Originally constructed in the late 16th century for the notorious Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, Hardwick Hall is now among the National Trusts greatest architectural landmarks, with much of its original interior and ornamentation still...

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Ranging from Kentchurch Court, a former fortified medieval manor house that has been the seat of the Scudamore family for nearly 1,000 years, to a delightful Strawberry Hill-style Gothic house in rural Cornwall and car-crazed Goodwood House, this ...

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This sumptuously illustrated history presents, in an updated new edition, an in-depth account of Britain's most important buildings, from castles, royal palaces and stately homes to fortified manors and the great country houses, and provides ...

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A captivating memoir of one woman's relationship with a man and his mansion.When Belinda Rathbone, a New York art historian, met eccentric Anglo-Scots bachelor John Ouchterlony it was the start of a story of clashing cultures and crumbling houses....

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A biography of an unsung Victorian hero, Joseph Paxton was the man behind the garden design at Chatsworth and the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851.The Victorians heralded a new era of creativity, a revolutionary fervour seizing all f...

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In this fully illustrated ebook, TV's Dan Snow brings to life a cavalcade of medieval fortifications and allows the reader to experience the clashes up close. (Images best viewed on a tablet.)Castles and their ruins still dominate the landscape an...

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This richly illustrated short, extracted from the official book The Chronicles of Downton Abbey, focuses on the characters individually, examining their motivations, their actions and the inspirations behind them. Forwarded by Downton Abbey creato...

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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 Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England. Life in the court of the House of Stuart has been shr...

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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 Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.Life in the court of the House of Stuart has been shro...

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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 Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England. Life in the court of the House of Stuart has been shr...

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'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts PHILIPPA GREGORY For cent...

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'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORYFor centuries...

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'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts PHILIPPA GREGORY For cent...

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A Christmas surprise. A scandal in disguise. 1809. Eliza Courtney and Harryo Cavendish lead opposite lives, except for the secret that binds them. Harryos life of luxury at Chatsworth House is shaken when pressure mounts on her to marry. A dreadfu...

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An armchair discovery tour of truly remarkable places, captured in SJ Axelbys inimitable watercolours. This follow-up volume to SJ Axelbys Interior Portraits transports the reader to bars, cafes, museums, shops, hotels, tearooms, restaurants, gard...

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An armchair discovery tour of truly remarkable places, captured in SJ Axelby's inimitable watercolours. This follow-up volume to SJ Axelby's Interior Portraits transports the reader to bars, cafes, museums, shops, hotels, tearooms, restaurants, lo...

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