House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (706 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847858960 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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House Style: Beautiful Clothes, Jewels, and Photos in a Book Not Easy to Use "House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth" is a most beautiful book published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name being held in 2017 at the Chatsworth stately home in Derbyshire, England, home to generations of the Dukes of Devonshire. Chatsworth is a home of 126 rooms and extensive gardens visited by several hundred thousand members of the public yearly. The current 12th Duke and his wife, plus the late Dowager Duchess Deborah, are also well known throughout Britain thanks to a multi-part television show that addressed the history, furnishings, and artwork of Chatsworth to. Disappointing, very few historic fashions. me If you're expecting to find a lot of historic fashion in this book, you'll be disappointed. I think I encountered a whole 5 examples in the entire huge coffee table book. Most of it seemed to be biographical essays on the ducal family. It is most definitely NOT a fashion history collection book!. RuralMom said A good read and lovely clothing. Very interesting book on the Devonshire ladies. A good read and lovely clothing.
Chatsworth has been home to the Cavendish family and the hereditary dukes of Devonshire since the original Elizabethan house was built on the site purchased by Sir William Cavendish in 1549. An exclusive invitation into the glamorous world of Chatsworth, this book is a true collectible for Anglophiles, fashion-history aficionados, and those fascinated by aristocratic style.. House Style takes the reader through images of show-stopping ensembles by the most celebrated designers of the day, from the Victorian era’s Jean–Philippe Worth to Alexander McQueen, and also features historic examples of ceremonial, military, court costume, fancy dress, and estate liveries, as well as clothing worn by members of the family to ride, hunt, shoot, and fish. New images of the rare surviving garments and gorgeous contemporary photographs are accompanied by new essays from leading historians and fas
. The Countess of Burlington is an editor, and wife of William Burlington, heir to the Duke of Devonshire. The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire reside at Chatsworth, home to the family since 1549. Hamish Bowles is the international editor-at-large at Vogue
For House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth ($60, Rizzoli), Hamish Bowles edits a rare glimpse into the estate’s glamorous lineage."—Modern Luxury Interiors, Atlanta. And it’s chic and a bit eccentric, just like the entire family tree."—The Style Saloniste"Six years in the making, "House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth" is a close-up of the aristocratic family over five centuries through the lens o