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Jewish Country Houses
£45.00 Buy A unique angle on Jewish and country house history, beautifully illustrated with original photography by leading architectural photographer Hélène Binet. Through a series of striking case studies this revelatory book explores the world of Jewish country houses, their architecture and collections - and the lives of the extraordinary men and women who created, transformed and shaped them. Country houses are powerful symbols of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy. Jewish country houses - properties that were owned, built, or renewed by Jews - tell a more complex story of prejudice and integration, difference and connection. Many had spectacular art collections and gardens. Some were stages for lavish entertaining, while others inspired the European avant-garde. A few are now museums of international importance, many more are hidden treasures, and all were beloved homes that bear witness to the remarkable achievements of newly emancipated Jews across Europe - and to a dream of belonging that mostly came to a brutal end with the Holocaust. Beautifully illustrated with historical images and a new body of work by the celebrated photographer Hélène Binet, this book is the first to tell that story: from the playful historicism of the National Trust's Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire to the modernist masterpiece that is the Villa Tugendhat in the Czech city of Brno - and across the Atlantic to the United States, where American Jews infused the European country house tradition with their own distinctive concerns and experiences. -
The Wedding Cake: Joana Vasconcelos
£10.00 Buy Catalogue The Wedding Cake at Waddesdon is a 12-metre-tall ceramic sculptural pavilion in the form of a three-tiered cake, a major Rothschild Foundation commission from celebrated Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. Visitors can step inside this astonishing work of art and enjoy a unique, richly sensory experience. Part sculpture, part architectural garden folly, the extraordinary structure […] -
Eythrope postcard pack
£10.00 Buy Miss Alice de Rothschild , creator of Eythrope, was a passionate and knowledgeable horticulturalist, renowned for her perfectionism and innovation. The walled garden at Eythrope was and is a productive garden, which supplied vegetables, fruit, herbs and cut flowers for her household, friends and family. Today, alongside the family, produce is used in Waddesdon’s restaurants, hotel and food markets. A working garden on this scale is rare in the 21st century and Eythrope is legendary in the garden world for the excellence of gardening and as a haven for traditional techniques that might otherwise be lost. -
Waddesdon: The Biography of a Rothschild House
£35.00 Buy In 1957, James de Rothschild bequeathed Waddesdon Manor to Britain's National Trust. Since that time, the Manor and its spectacular gardens welcome more and more visitors every year. Now, this lavish book allows readers everywhere the opportunity to enjoy this unique celebration of le style Rothschild. -
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Paradise and Plenty
£29.95 Buy Under the leadership of the renowned head gardener, Sue Dickinson, this garden works on a scale that is now unique producing, year-round, all the fruit, flowers and vegetables for a country house where entertaining still happens on a grand scale and where everything is done to the highest standard. Paradise and Plenty will open a window on what has, until now, been kept intensely private, a world beyond most gardeners' dreams. Many of the techniques used at Eythrop are old and tried, but have fallen out of use almost everywhere else. As the author says, 'this book has to be how as well as wow.' -
Printed Books and Bookbindings I and II
£300.00 Buy The first volume provides introductory surveys on the collecting of ancient régime books and Baron Ferdinand’s interests. The following chapters discuss the late 17th and 18th century Parisian bookbinding trade, with particular studies on the style and production of leading bookbinders, Padeloup, Douceur, the Deromes and others. The provenance index records past owners, with brief biographical notes, and there is a select bibliography. The classified index of over 1000 French bookbinder’s tools, reproduced digitally in actual size, provides an authoritative reference file on the best French bookbinding of the period. This catalogue is handsomely printed and illustrated in colour and black-and-white. No earlier private library catalogue has excelled it in learning and none has come near to equalling it in beauty of presentation. It is likely to be the last, as well as the most distinguished, of its kind. By Giles Barber. -
Illuminated Manuscripts
£150.00 Buy Many are among the best products of the later Middle Ages, from the workshop of Jean Pucelle in Paris of the early 14th century, to that of Jean Bourdichon of Tours or of Simon Bening of Bruges, both of the early 16th century; some are valuable for their texts and others for the richness of their illumination. The catalogue descriptions are organised to emphasize the history of the medieval book. Their components, technical elements, texts, and illustrations, are analysed in the sequence in which they were produced, in order to reconstruct the life of each book and, as far as possible, its history. By L.M.J. Delaissé, James Marrow and John de Wit. -
Glass, Stained Glass and Enamels
£150.00 Buy The origins of all these glasses are studied and analysed in the introduction. The stained glass panels are from England, Switzerland and Germany and range in date from c.1400 to the mid-17th century; all were intended for domestic use. The Limoges enamels & dishes, plaques, and a ewer & cover the second great period of production there and include many of the great names, from the work of the Aeneid Master probably of 1525& 30, to one plaque by Léonard II Limosin of the beginning of the 17th century. A study on each artist's work precedes the catalogue entries on the group by or attributed to him. by R.J. Charleston, Michael Archer and Madeleine Marcheix. -
Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century
£200.00 Buy Most prominent among these objects are the series of gold boxes made by leading Paris goldsmiths of the 1760's & 1780's and mounted with miniatures painted by the Van Blarenberghes. This group is one of the largest painted by this family, besides snuffboxes there are also bonbonnières, patch boxes, needlecases and other containers, in gold, sometimes enamelled, in hardstones, or covered in shagreen, and other precious materials. The creation and composition of the boxes in this exceptionally important collection, as well as the context in which they were used, are studied both in the introduction and in the catalogue entries. Authors: Serge Grandjean, Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti, Charles Truman and Anthony Blun. -
Catalogue of Drawings for Architecture, Design and Ornament
£250.00 Buy Remarkable for the sheer abundance and quality of works by virtually every French 18th-century ornementiste or architect of note (Oppenord, Meissonier, Delafosse, Pillement, Cauvet, Gillot and Berain to name but a few), the catalogue also includes key contributions from their 17th-century precursors and a significant complement of German as well as Dutch and Italian designs. 2 volumes, 1080 entries, 1100 drawings reproduced in black and white, 96 colour plates. The catalogue has been compiled by leading scholars in the field and as a result is a major contribution to the understanding of an as yet little explored area of art history, collecting and material culture. The majority of the drawings are previously unpublished, so the collection is not as well-known as it deserves to be, although a small selection are displayed in changing exhibitions annually at the Manor. -
Windmill Hill Waddesdon: Architecture, Archives and Art
£20.00 Buy A catalogue written by Colin Amery with Pippa Shirley and Stephen Marshall to mark the opening of a new building on Windmill Hill, at the heart of the Waddesdon Estate, home for the archives of the Manor, the estate and the family papers of the Rothschilds who have, for four generations, been responsible for Waddesdon.
