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Lutyens, Edwin Landseer

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
English architect. His designs ranged from the picturesque, such as Castle Drogo (1910–30), Devon, to Renaissance-style country houses, and ultimately evolved into a classical style as seen in the Cenotaph, London (1919), and the Viceroy's House, New Delhi, India (1912–31). His complex use of space, interest in tradition, and distorted classical language have proved of great interest to a number of postmodern architects, especially Robert Venturi. He was born in London, the son of a painter. After a very brief training in the office of Ernest George (1839–1922), he began practice at the age of 19. His first commission was a country cottage, Munstead Wood (1896), for Gertrude Jekyll , who greatly influenced his earlier work. For many years this consisted almost entirely of country houses, picturesque in design and showing sympathetic understanding of traditional materials. Typical examples are The Deanery, Sonning (1900), and Marsh Court, Stockbridge (1901). His later designs displayed…
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Full text Article Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer (1869–1944).

From The Oxford Companion to British History
English architect who embraced both classicism and Arts and Crafts ideals. Starting in 1896 with Munstead Wood (Surrey) for the gardener Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1942), Lutyens's early houses include Deanery Gardens, Sonning, Berks. (1899–1902), Tigbourne Court, Witley, Surrey (1899–1901), and Folly…
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Full text Article Edwin Lutyens 1869–1944

From The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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English architect. His designs include the Cenotaph, Whitehall and Liverpool Roman Catholic Cathedral. There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. 1915 In Country Life , 8 May. Lydgate, John c.1370-c.1451 English poet and Benedictine monk, who travelled widely…
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Full text Article Lane Pictures, the

From Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable
The subject of the offer made by Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915), nephew of Lady GREGORY and a successful art dealer, that his priceless collection of 39 impressionist works form the nucleus of an Irish gallery of modern art. The paintings had been exhibited in Dublin in 1908, but the proposal to house…
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Full text Article Thiepval memorial

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Full text Article FOOD

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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead. Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk. ATWOOD, Margaret The CanLit Foodbook: From Pen to Palate - A Collection of Tasty…
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Full text Article Lutyens, Sir Edwin L(andseer)

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born March 29, 1869, London, Eng.—died Jan. 1, 1944, London) British architect. His design for a house at Munstead Wood, Godalming, Surrey (1896), created for Gertrude Jekyll , established his reputation. In the series of country houses he subsequently designed, many in collaboration with Jekyll, …
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Full text Article Delhi

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Delhi is best understood as a palimpsest with layers of settlements rather than as a single city. There is archaeological evidence that Delhi was settled as far back as the Mauryas (c. 321–185 BCE ) ( Narain 1986 ). It is during India's Islamicate period, however, that Delhi rises to significance in…
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Full text Article architecture.

From The Oxford Companion to British History
British architecture has a strongly national character, often nurturing indigenous traditions while at the same time developing distinctive, and occasionally imitative, versions of European or international styles. Scottish architecture tended to develop independently (to some extent even after the…
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