Decoración y Diseño

Ranging from Kentchurch Court, a former fortified medieval manor house that has been the seat of the Scudamore family for nearly 1,000 years, to a delightful Strawberry Hill-style Gothic house in rural Cornwall and car-crazed Goodwood House, this beautifully illustrated book showcases ten (...)

Margarita M.ª Birriel Salcedo, "Introducción", pp. 9-22; Amanda Flather, "Early Modern Gender and Space: a methodological framework", pp. 23-44; Francisco García González, "Casas, itinerarios, trayectorias. Espacializar la Historia Social en el Antiguo Régimen", pp. 45-64; Beatriz Blasco Esquivias, (...)

Karl Kolbitz is an editor, based in Berlin. Growing up in the reunited German capital, he became interested in architecture and how the built environment shapes our lives. He worked with Mario Testino and Wolfgang Tillmans for many years before founding his own creative practice, which focuses on (...)

This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture with their rich and fluent décor. Their names (...)