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Book The Making of the Royal Pavilion  Brighton

Download or read book The Making of the Royal Pavilion Brighton written by John Morley and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treasures from the Royal Collection

Download or read book Treasures from the Royal Collection written by Queen's Gallery (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated: The Margaret A. Bailey Art Collection.

Book Designing the Seaside

Download or read book Designing the Seaside written by Fred Gray and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Designing the Seaside Fred Gray provides a history of seaside architecture from the 18th century to the present day, investigating leisure, entertainment, taste, fashion and gender, and shows how the seaside even became a hotbed for moral and sexual issues - from the early use of bathing machines to twentieth-century beauty pageants and naturist groups. He relates the evolution of resort architecture to sweeping changes in how seaside nature was experienced and used by holidaymakers. The book also traces the history of the coastal resort, with examples ranging from Regency Sidmouth to Victorian Scarborough and early 20th-century Morecambe, as well as assessing seaside developments in the USA and Continental Europe, from Coney Island and Santa Barbara to Nice and Trouville." "Featuring many colourful, informative and often entertaining photographs, drawings, guidebook illustrations, postcards and publicity posters from resorts around the world, Designing the Seaside is a thoroughly readables as well as a visually fascinating account of changing attitudes to holidaymaking and its setting."--BOOK JACKET.

Book George IV

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Marsden
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781909741607
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book George IV written by Jonathan Marsden and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany a major exhibition at The Queen's Galleries in London and Edinburgh, this book provides new insights into George IV as a collector. Although George led a life bounded by convention, he was a genuine connoisseur who was able to form an unrivalled collection of paintings, porcelain and furniture. These he presented and displayed in a series of architecturally adventurous spaces. His acquisitions continue to form the backdrop to royal ceremony, a legacy that is one of the principal pillars of today's magnificent Royal Collection.

Book Colour

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexandra Loske
  • Publisher : Ilex Press
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781781573990
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Colour written by Alexandra Loske and published by Ilex Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the story of colour through the significant scientific discoveries and key artist's works over 400 years. From Isaac Newton's investigations through to Olafur Eliasson's experiential creations, this stunning book documents the fascinating story of colour with an extraordinary collection of original colour material that includes charts, wheels, artists' palettes, swatches and schemes. "In 1704, the scientist Isaac Newton published Opticks, the result of many years of researching light and colour. By splitting white light, Newton identified the visible range of colours, or the rainbow spectrum. In Opticks, he built a colour system around his findings, and he visualised this system in a circular shape, making it one of the first printed colour wheels. The influence of Newton and his followers, combined with the invention of many new pigments as well as watercolours in moist cake form, had made painting with colour an exciting occupation not just for serious artists but also for a much wider audience. The colour revolution had begun." Contents Introduction 1. Unravelling the Rainbow: The Eighteenth-Century Colour Revolution 2. Romantic Ideas & New Technologies: The Early Nineteenth Century 3. Industrialism to Impressionism: The Later Nineteenth Century 4. Colour for Colour's Sake: Colour into the Future: Glossary Bibliography Index

Book Views of the Royal Pavilion

Download or read book Views of the Royal Pavilion written by John Nash and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Making of the Royal Pavilion

Download or read book The Making of the Royal Pavilion written by John Morley and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2003-12-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, is one of the most famous and opulent royal extravaganzas in existence. This book reproduces all the important surviving designs, used and unused, for the exterior and interior of the Pavilion. It reveals the great variety of brilliant exotic schemes devised for its construction and decoration. It was first built in 1787 for the Prince of Wales as a neo-classical marine villa, and by the time the Prince became king in 1820 it had grown into the extraordinary Indian/Chinese Fantasy it is today. The projects for the exterior include the pretty but chaste designs of Henry Holland and the wilder Indian and Chinese fantasies of William Porden and Humphry Repton. The interior designs, executed mainly by the Crace firm of decorators and Robert Jones (all firmly controlled by the king) are always splendid and often astonishing; they include schemes for whole rooms as well as for individual details such as windows, skylights, doorways, carpets and curtains. The range includes the 'barbaric' chinoiserie of the 1802-04 period, the enchanting 'rococo' chinoiserie of 1815-17, and the opulent richness of the final scheme. The techniques used include illusionistic painting, marbling, faux graining, faux skies - often in a vein of high fantasy. The 308 illustrations, of which 111 are reproduced in colour, capture all the variety, magnificence and exotic luxury of the extraordinary building.

Book Royal Mistresses of the House of Hanover Windsor

Download or read book Royal Mistresses of the House of Hanover Windsor written by Susanna de Vries and published by Pirgos Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genuine love match between Prince William and Kate Middleton has rekindled enthusiasm for the British monarchy. In the past, young princes reluctantly entered into arranged marriages and took mistresses. Perdita Robinson, a famous actress, was enticed from the stage with promises of money to live with the fickle Prince of Wales, who turned her and her child onto the street. Perdita fought back, won a financial settlement and became a pioneer of women's writing. Edward VII's most fascinating mistresses were aristocrats' wives like the multi-talented unconventional Lady Jennie Churchill, mother of Winston, and the headstrong heiress, Daisy, Countess of Warwick, mother of one of Edward's love children. Beautiful Alice Keppel became the love of Edward's life and was the great-grandmother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, yet another royal mistress. Edward's grandson, Edward VIII suffered an attack of mumps that left him physically and mentally immature. He implored Mrs Freda Dudley Ward to elope but she refused. Another mistress, Lady Thelma Furness, star of Hollywood's silent screen, introduced Edward to the domineering Wallis Simpson who insisted the impotent king seek psychiatric help. In order that Wallis could look like a queen the Duke of Windsor lavished her with jewels and forgave her infidelities in this most intriguing of all royal stories.

Book The romance of missions  or  Inside views of life and labor in the land of Ararat

Download or read book The romance of missions or Inside views of life and labor in the land of Ararat written by Maria Abigail West and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects written by Royal Institute of British Architects and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Brighthelmston  or  Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It

Download or read book History of Brighthelmston or Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It written by John Ackerson Erredge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an incredible history of Brighton, earlier known as Brighthelmstone, a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove. It is located on the south coast of England, in East Sussex. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. The writer entertains the readers with vivid descriptions of the site and several unknown facts. In addition, histories of the places and brief biographies of famous people that lived there are also included in this book.

Book The Far Pavilions

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. M. Kaye
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • Release : 2015-12-01
  • ISBN : 1250089298
  • Pages : 961 pages

Download or read book The Far Pavilions written by M. M. Kaye and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping epic set in 19th-century India begins in the foothills of the towering Himalayas and follows a young Indian-born orphan as he's raised in England and later returns to India where he falls in love with an Indian princess and struggles with cultural divides. The Far Pavilions is itself a Himalayan achievement, a book we hate to see come to an end. It is a passionate, triumphant story that excites us, fills us with joy, move us to tears, satisfies us deeply, and helps us remember just what it is we want most from a novel. M.M. Kaye's masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that ranks with the greatest panoramic sagas of modern fiction, moving the famed literary critic Edmond Fuller to write: "Were Miss Kaye to produce no other book, The Far Pavilions might stand as a lasting accomplishment in a single work comparable to Margaret Mitchell's achievement in Gone With the Wind."

Book Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England

Download or read book Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England written by Joseph Mallord William Turner and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Picturesque views on the southern coast of England  from drawings made principally by J  M  W  Turner  and engraved by W  B  Cooke and other engravers

Download or read book Picturesque views on the southern coast of England from drawings made principally by J M W Turner and engraved by W B Cooke and other engravers written by England and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Trident  the Crescent  and the Cross  a View of the Religious History of India During the Hindu  Buddhist  Mohammedan  and Christian Periods

Download or read book The Trident the Crescent and the Cross a View of the Religious History of India During the Hindu Buddhist Mohammedan and Christian Periods written by James Vaughan (Incumbent of Christ Church, Brighton.) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Romance of Missions  Or  Inside Views of Life and Labor  in the Land of Ararat      With an Introduction by Mrs  Charles  Etc

Download or read book The Romance of Missions Or Inside Views of Life and Labor in the Land of Ararat With an Introduction by Mrs Charles Etc written by Maria A. WEST and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: