Oliver Garnett: 2 books
At Home with Art
Treasures from the Ford Collection at Basildon Park
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-99) was a passionate collector from the age of eleven. During a long life he enriched an already important family collection with masterpieces of Italian painting. He was also a discerning patron of contemporary British artists and a pioneering scholar of the Grand Tour. Last...
by Oliver Garnett
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Rudyard Kipling loved Bateman’s. It was his personal paradise, where he wrote some of his most famous works and enjoyed quiet family life free from the demands of fame. The atmospheric 17th-century house has changed little since his time and nestles modestly in the wooded landscape of the Sussex Weald. This guidebook uncovers the lives of the Kiplings and their staff at Bateman's.