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'Remarkable... traces the whole story of domestic architecture in Britain.' AN Wilson, Sunday Telegraph
An Englishman’ s home has always been his castle. Everyman’ s Castle restores people to the panorama of domestic architecture.
Philippa
Lewis turns an affectionate eye to the characteristic British types of
house – cottages, farmhouses, semi-detached, suburban,
flats, terraces, bungalows, country houses – and charts
their rise and fall. How were they perceived when they were built, and
what happened to them subsequently? What sorts of messages did the
design of a house send about the inhabitant, from stairs up to the front
door (implying servants living below) in a Victorian terrace to bay
windows (implying private ownership) in the twentieth century?
The
book is thoroughly and beguilingly illustrated with amusing and
out-of-the-way material from a wide variety of sources. Using the same
technique as her acclaimed Everything You Can Do in the Garden Without Actually Gardening,
Philippa Lewis builds up the story using original specifications, plans
and architects’ writings on various types of houses, then
layering in the experiences or expectations of those who lived in them,
drawing on novels, diaries, letters, magazines and even sale
advertisements.
