Clouds : the biography of a country house
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Clouds : the biography of a country house
Yale University Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-273) and index
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Description
This book is essentially a study of British aristocratic and artistic patronage of the arts in the under-explored period after 1850, approached through an intensive look at a single house - Clouds, known as "the house of the age". It was built by the glamorous and unconventionally gifted Percy and Madeline Wyndham, and designed by Philip Webb, one of Britain's greatest architects. It became one of the centres of artistic and political life in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and set the style for a whole generation of country house living. Dakers recreates the atmosphere and the lives lived in the house, the personalities of its three generations of Wyndham owners, and the succession of distinguished guests drawn to it - Henry James, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Kipling, Whistler and Lord Alfred Douglas, amongst many others. She tracks the decline in the tradition of aristocratic patronage through a decline in the fortunes of Clouds itself - by the 1930s, the "palace of art" was a vast white elephant, and the house was sold to an institution, its treasures dispersed and its structure dynamited into a more usable space.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- list of illustrations
- Percy Wyndham and Madeline Campbell
- married life and artistic patronage
- Philip Webb and the design of Clouds
- Clouds: built and rebuilt
- the Wyndhams, Clouds and community
- country house weekends
- Clouds, Stanway and Wilsford
- death and inheritance
- World War I
- Clouds abandoned
- from home to institution.
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