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A History of Regent Street
Regent Street is one of the best known streets in London. This riveting history traces its development from a royal scheme devised for the Prince Regent by his favorite architect, John Nash, in the 19th century to its role as the "destination street" of today. It was originally celebrated as the "avenue of superfluities"--full of modish shops providing clothes, British and imported dress material, and luxuries like fans, furs, and jewelry. So successful were the businesses that rebuilding was necessary by the end of Queen Victoria's reign. Fashionable new shops and department stores in Portland stone replaced Nash's stucco, creating the Regent Street of today. The author, an eminent historian of London, traces the creation of the whole area from the clubs of Waterloo Place along the whole length of Regent Street to the villas of Regent's Park, and discusses the problems its projectors had to overcome. She records the many talented architects and inventive shopkeepers who established the street as a fashionable quarter, and traces the many changes and problems faced by landlords and occupiers in keeping their street in the forefront of style for two centuries.
Lost London
"This book, then, is primarily a catalogue of destruction, a list of buildings which were obsolescent or economic, or stood in the way of progress in the form of a new road or a new bridge, or of an institution like a hospital or a university. Throughout the hundred years it covers there were voices raised against the destruction, merely deprecatory at first, but leading to the formation of pressure groups who gradually achieved legislative protection for historic buildings in London."--Introduction, p. 1
Iron and Glass
Henry Cole wrote of the 1851 Great Exhibition that England had invited all nations to a great festival, and certainly in putting together and holding the exhibition, England played a pioneer role. The Universal Exhibition of the Works of All Nations, to give it its full title, was a 'first'. It also created the first major purpose-built exhibition building, a model which was to inspire many would-be imitators, but also in due course a number of improvements and competitors.The subject of this book is the wide variety of buildings designed to house those international exhibitions in Paris, Munich and New York, amongst others, promoted in emulation of the successful 1851 Exhibition, and the wa...
The Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition
The Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Crystal Palace which housed it together became a British icon, a symbol of free trade, and a national success funded not only by taxes but by public subscription. Though the Palace itself was banished to Sydenham, to leave Hyde Park free for Londoners, the Commission was re-invented under Prince Albert to spend the profits for the advancement of British industry. The Commissioners first established South Kensington with its Museums and Colleges of Art and Science, the Albert Hall and the Royal College of Music, and then moved into the training of scientists and artists. They assisted in the expansion of the British School at Rome, and for over a century 1851 Scholars have been contributing to British scientific discoveries.This book celebrates 150 years of the Commission's work, fired by the "application of art and science to productive industry", a story of some success and permanent record, yet a pilgrimage not without its episodes of dissension and controversy.
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Oxford & Cambridge
Photographs document the architecture of these two prestigious universities and their surrounding towns, with a brief survey of their respective histories
Neon in Daylight
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A radiant first novel. . . . [Neon in Daylight] has antecedents in the great novels of the 1970s: Renata Adler’s Speedboat, Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights, Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays. . . . Precision—of observation, of language—is Hoby’s gift. Her sentences are sleek and tailored. Language molds snugly to thought." —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times New York City in 2012, the sweltering summer before Hurricane Sandy hits. Kate, a young woman newly arrived from England, is staying in a Manhattan apartment while she tries to figure out her future. She has two unfortunate responsibilities during her time in America: to make...
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