THE RISE OF THE NOUVEAUX RICHES.J. Mordaunt Crook Joseph Mordaunt Crook, CBE, MA, D.Phil, FBA, generally known as J. Mordaunt Crook, is an English architectural historian and specialist on the Georgian and Victorian periods. He is a leading writer on the life and work of the Victorian art-architect William Burges. . London: John Murray Not to be confused with John Murry. There have been several important people by the name of John Murray (roughly in chronological order):
You need an obsessive interest in the rise and fall of the Victorian and Edwardian nouveaux riches to enjoy fully this hook of long lists of names, classifying subjects by fortune, county, party, origin, club and yacht. The architectural element of the story is secondary, because those with the most to spend were more interested in having a house than in what it looked like. Old money, Quakers, and Scots of all kinds built Gothic; but the new rich built Classical Anglo-French, furnished perhaps by Sir Blundell Maple. The results often resembled the smarter department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. . The book lacks an architect's viewpoint, a description of a country house practice or a classification by designer. Some houses, particularly the Scots Baronial ba·ro·ni·al adj. 1. Of or relating to a baron or barony. 2. Suited for or befitting a baron; stately and grand: a baronial mansion. Adj. 1. ones, are so ugly it is hard to look at them without wincing. Edwardian snobbery provokes a similar reaction. Philip Sassoon is savaged by Chips Channon, himself more parvenu than his victim. Sassoon built Port Lympne and planned the amazing garden now full of tigers; he was not a tragic metaphor for the decline of the rich that Crook wants him to be. The book is about people with uninteresting (jargon) uninteresting - 1. Said of a problem that, although nontrivial, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it. 2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code. taste. |
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