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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition devoted to the work of A.W.N. Pugin held at the Victoria & Albert Museum between June and September 1994 and sponsored by Pearson plc. Although Pugin was one of the most talented and prolific designers of the nineteenth century this has never before been demonstrated in a major exhibition. He designed not only a wide range of both secular and ecclesiastical buildings but also their furnishings. Working closely with manufacturers he played a major role in the production of textiles wallpaper metalwork furniture and books. His designs for the whole of the interior of the Palace of Westminster and work shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851 had a profound effect both on other designers and public taste. Among the objects on display in the Medi?val Court of the Great Exhibition were a stove clad in majolica tiles made by Minton and a superb brass chandelier which was to hang in the hall at Alton Towers. Minton is part of Royal Doulton now an independent public company but which for twenty-one years until 1993 was a subsidiary of Pearson. Alton Towers is part of the Tussauds Group Pearson’s visitor attraction business. These links make Pearson all the more proud to be associated both with the exhibition and this book which will broaden the public knowledge of and I hope admiration for a great man. As sponsor of the exhibition Pearson has worked closely with the Victoria & Albert Museum and Yale University Press to ensure that this book discusses and illustrates as wide a range of Pugin’s work as possible. We have commissioned photography of many of Pugin’s buildings and their furnishings and some of these superb new photographs are published here for the first time with yet more shown in the exhibition itself. Though the Gothic Revival style in which Pugin worked may seem a far cry from the design world of the late twentieth century his principles of structural honesty and truth to materials are still very much a live issue among architects and designers of today. (MP)