Strawberry Hill
Horace Walpole's Gothic Castle

By Anna Chalcraft and Judith Viscardi


Strawberry Hill
Online price: £25.00
Hardback, 160 pages
Published: 5th October 2007

Category: Architecture, Art and Design


Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's 'Little play-thing house', became one of the wonders of the 18th-century architectural world. The authors take us round the house (now being restored) and room by room reveal the theatrical planning, the deliberate contrasts of light and colour and the love of drama invested in every detail of the building, its decoration and its furniture. The book is illustrated with photographs and with many of the engravings Walpole himself commissioned.

'It is difficult to imagine that the history of the house will ever be better traced than in this beautifully produced and elegantly written book. It is an object lesson in how the biography of a house should be put together.'

House and Garden



'Prettily illustrated and absorbing.'

Evening Standard



Publication Details:

Binding: Hardback, 160 pages
ISBN: 9780711226876
Format: 295mm x 245mm
100 colour photographs

BIC Code: AMKH, TNKX
BISAC Code:  ARC014000
Imprint: Frances Lincoln


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