Houses, Palaces and Gardens

The Forbidden City

A comprehensive tour of this sacred centre of the Chinese Empire including abundant colour photography.
Edition: softcover | Price: £8.95 / $14.95 | ISBN: 978 962 86215 3 8

The National Palace, Sintra

This book includes an illustrated tour of the principal rooms and surrounding grounds, highlighting key aspects of the building's architecture and decoration.
Edition: softcover | Price: £14.95 / $29.95 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 181 1

The Palace and Gardens of Queluz

Our historic initiative has succeeded, combining the precisely drawn description of this unique royal household with a profound reflection on the position of the estate, the Palace and its wonderful decorative contents in Portuguese history.
Edition: hardcover | Price: £19.95 / $35 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 174 3

Pena National Palace

One of Europe's most romantic palaces and one of Portugal's most symbolic monuments, a pioneer in Europe of the architectural forms that were to be developed by Romantic sensibility.
Edition: softcover | Price: £3.95 / $7.95 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 490 4

The Gardens of Versailles

This newly revised and updated book celebrates the vast restoration project initiated in 1990 for the park at Versailles, showing the evolution of the work and the results of the first re-plantings 20 years ago.
Edition: softcover | Price: £19.95 / $35 | ISBN: 978 2 86656 360 8

Bayou Bend Gardens: A Southern Oasis

Featuring archival as well as newly commissioned photography, this beautiful book is the first to focus on this trend-setting American garden.
Edition: hardcover | Price: £25.00 / $45 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 423 2

Ascott

A beautiful guide to one of England's hidden gems, containing some of the very finest pictures in the National Trust ownership and surrounded by splendid 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century gardens.
Edition: softcover | Price: £8.00 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 504 8

Rienzi: European Decorative Arts and Paintings

The first book to document the remarkable art collection, house and gardens that make up Rienzi, now the centre for European decorative arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Essays on the design and history of the house and the gardens are followed by highlights of the collection with beautiful colour reproductions.
Edition: hardcover | Price: £25.00 / $45 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 505 5

America's Treaures at Bayou Bend: Celebrating Fifty Years

Presenting the highlights of the wonderful collection of American furniture, paintings and decorative arts housed at Bayou Bend in Houston, Texas, the historic residence of Texas philanthropist Ima Hogg (1882-1975).
Edition: hardcover | Price: £25.00 / $45 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 485 0

Dumfries House

The first book to tell the story of Dumfries House (now open to the public for the first time), its owners and the remarkable architects and craftsmen who created it.
Edition: softcover | Price: £5.95 | ISBN: 978 1 85759 571 0