{"product_id":"sir-edwin-lutyens-clive-aslet-9781739731434","title":"Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain's Greatest Architect?","description":"\u003cp\u003e- Professor Clive Aslet, chairman of the Lutyens Trust, reveals the journey behind the buildings designed by Lutyens. This book digs deep into the archives, showcasing both Aslet's knowledge and unseen artwork and stories from the archives of the Lutyens Trust. Both commercial and personal commissions and stories reveal the man behind the persona. Was Sir Edwin Lutyens Britain's Greatest Architect?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Featuring many previously unseen pictures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Includes the stories behind the artwork\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Newly commissioned photography by Dylan Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Edwardian country houses, surrounded by rhapsodic gardens, beguiled clients with their romance and wit. After 1918, the war memorials that he created symbolised a grieving nation's sense of loss. In the new capital of the British Raj, New Delhi, the Viceroy's House or Rashtrapati Bhavan had a footprint bigger than Versailles. His unfinished Liverpool Cathedral would have rivalled St Peter's in Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntensely shy, Lutyens hid his personality behind puns and jokes - and yet he could be called 'part mystic', a reference to an inner profundity. Rich in stories, this entertaining and stylish short biography is a major new study incorporating fresh research which shows this most charismatic of architects in a new light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clive Aslet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1739731433\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781739731434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Triglyph Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Clive Aslet","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45332084195583,"sku":"9781739731434","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_41488f7a-76e9-48dd-a005-ac4f64f523dc.jpg?v=1713971699","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sir-edwin-lutyens-clive-aslet-9781739731434","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}