ROMANTIC ENGLISH HOMES (HB) (NEW)

Courtesy of the Grand Tour and the British Empire, England’s aristocratic homes became repositories of treasure gathered from around the globe. Romantic English Homes features 14 such houses. Large or small, old or new, they all convey an impression of massed objects intentionally mingling styles and tastes, the classical placed next to the gothic, tartan pattern competing with floral print. Decorated with defiant eclecticism, the buildings featured here indicate that although the Empire may have gone, the English love of collecting remains as strong as ever.