Wednesday 29 March 2017




I've been enjoying this book slowly, not so much for the wealth of architectural detail but for wonderful stories like this.
Would you have guessed that this is a design - not for a castle in Spain - but for Selfridge Castle, drawn up for the flamboyant owner of the department store - near Bournemouth! It was never built. Probably just as well.
 

3 comments:

galant said...

I absolutely loved this book, Tinniswood is such a good writer. The only drawback was that the book, while not particularly large for a book of this kind (social history, illustrated) was physically very heavy for me to handle which took some of the pleasure away.
Margaret P
www.margaretpowling.com

Vronni's Style Meanderings said...

Good Lord! That 'castle' looks more like a state building - a parliamentary type building even.

I think I would loved to have been a country house guest at one of those wonderful homes but I was far more likely to gave been a household servant...

Mary said...

That's why it's taken me so long, Margaret - it's not handbag-sized!

If i could have been head cook, Veronica, I'd have far preferred downstairs to endless chitchat and dressing-up.