Richard Norman Shaw

Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile, representative and immediately influential domestic architect of the late Victorian period in England. His training and early career coincided with the heyday of the Gothic Revival, in which style he designed a handful of original churches. His most prolific period of practice saw the triumph of the 'Old English' and 'Queen Anne' domestic styles which are largely associated with his name. A series of powerful urban buildings designed towards the end of Shaw's career reveals him as one of the foremost proponents of a revived classicism. In each of these styles the piquant originality of Shaw's designs and the brilliance of his planning captivated his contemporaries in the architectural and social world alike. He became the undisputed leading architect of his day and the precursor of such different talents as Lutyens and Voysey. In the United States, Shaw's distinctive contribution to English domestic architecture played a formative part in the evolution of the Shingle Style. This new edition of a major work offers a completely revised text and new introduction and is now illustrated generously in colour, with many specially commissioned photographs.

ISBN 0300155263   Pages 488 ISBN13 9780300155266 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 2563 Publisher Yale University Press   Published in New Haven Imprint Yale University Press   Series title Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Format Hardback   Height (mm) 279 Publication date 04 May 2010   Width (mm) 216 DEWEY 720.92   Spine width (mm) 43 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

		Preface to the First Edition
		Preface to this Edition
		List of Abbreviations
		Key to Plans
		Introduction: Reflections on a Reputation		1
1		Apprenticeship		13
		Dedication and Pupillage
		Travels
		Street's Office
		First Designs
2		South and North		35
		Origins of Old English
		Nesfield and Shaw
		Yorkshire
		Cragside
3		The Country House		95
		Outside
		Inside
		Four Houses
4		The Pattern of Practice		151
		Queen Anne
		The RA Drawaings
		The Customers
		The Painters' Houses
		Builders
		Concrete
		Furniture
		Home and Health
		The Office
5		Turning Point		213
		Illness
		Albert Hall Mansions
		Bedford Park
		More...

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