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5 days ago · In the mid 1890s, Lady Emily Lytton looked so unhappy when the witty young architect Edwin Lutyens saw her at a party, that he longed to rescue her with his jokes. Tall, large-nosed and spiritual, Emily was, like Lutyens, shy – but she came from a high-octane family, one of her sisters being a prominent suffragette.
3 days ago · The English love affair with the garden has been conducted over centuries. The influence of the Arts and Crafts movement led by designers like Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens combined structured layouts with more naturalistic informal planting. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries artists captured this expression of Englishness and our ...
5 days ago · Campion Hall, Oxford University, built by Lutyens in 1936 Modern classical: the Cenotaph, built in 1920, in 1953. It was, above all his contemporaries, Lutyens who expressed the big ideas of his time – another reason he is called great. Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain’s Greatest Architect? by Clive Aslet is published by Triglyph Books
4 days ago · My final run is the most pleasant: across the city’s colonial portion, spread over 26sq km known as Lutyens Delhi Bungalow Zone, named after the British architect Edwin Lutyens, who designed it ...
3 days ago · A country house, the Salutation at Sandwich, Kent, was being built for them by (Sir) Edwin Lutyens, and in 1911 Lutyens rebuilt No. 7 as a town residence for their joint occupation. In The Lutyens Memorial it is stated that the main walls of the front rooms of the old house were retained.
Jun 23, 2020 · Travel across the causeway to Holy Island and discover this magical place. One of the most iconic landmarks in the UK, Lindisfarne Castle was converted by famed architect Sir Edwin Lutyens into a private holiday home for Edward Hudson, founder of Country Life magazine.
3 days ago · Their house was renovated by the well-known architect Edwin Lutyens. The Nicholsons marriage was open and both had affairs with members of their own sex. Vita’s most well-known relationship was with the novelist Virginia Woolf: she even inspired the principal character of Woolf’s novel, Orlando, about a time-travelling, gender-changing aristocrat who has affairs with men and women.
