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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in good condition. One corner has some damage and dustcover has been repaired however pages in excellent little used condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> To be right you have to take it and design it….. It means hard labour hard thinking over every line in all three dimensions and in every joint; and no stone can be allowed to slide. If you tackle it in this way the order belongs to you and every stroke being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.” This letter alone explains why Lutyens’s Classical houses have an intel- lectual coherence and dynamism entirely lacking from the pedestrian work of the several more recent fashionable country-house architects who fondly imagine they are following in the footsteps of Palladio. Only a villa but how grand the treatment!” observed Nikolaus Pevsner who was always ambivalent towards Lutyens’s work. The house marks the change in Lutyens’s style from the Voysey-Tudor- Arts-and-Crafts to the Classical-Palladian-Georgian but the treatment is as free as any of Lutyens and the mannerisms of the later work are still absent. But for Hitchcock that other censorious modernist Heathcote was the moment when ‘Lutyens surrendered completely to revivalism. The story in fact is not so simple. (OS)