The Buildings of Green Park: A tour of certain buildings, monuments and other structures in Mayfair and...

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Andrew Jones Alain de Botton

The Buildings of Green Park

A tour of certain buildings, monuments and other structures in Mayfair and St. James’s

Andrew Jones, Alain de Botton

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ACC Art Books
01 May 2021

Photography & photographs; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial; Memorials, monuments

Take a walk around a park trodden by many but known by few. From Lancaster House, venue of famous speeches and summits, to 100 Piccadilly, the stage of an ongoing Soviet-themed reality experience, The Buildings of Green Park captures the unseen history of these well-travelled streets.

Green Park boasts a plethora of London landmarks, including Bridgewater House and the Canada Gates. The Buildings of Green Park gives each of these sites the attention they deserve, while also celebrating a multitude of overlooked buildings: those that are passed every day without comment from the guides. Local history, old photographs, paintings and floorplans offer a tantalising peek into the backstory behind these backdrops. Moving through the winter and into the spring, Andrew Jones's crisp photography captures a London shaped by past, present and hopes for the future.

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A detailed historical study of the buildings of Mayfair and St James's .

Short, accessible and informative anecdotes about buildings and monuments .

Photographs accompanied by black-and-white pictures and period art

255 colour, 65 b/w illustrations

By: Andrew Jones
Foreword by: Alain de Botton
Imprint: ACC Art Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 200mm,
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9781788841160
ISBN 10: 1788841166
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 01 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Andrew Jones’s Instagram takes us across sub-Saharan Africa, from the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Ivory Coast. For this project, he explores far closer to home. During the 2020 lockdown, Jones combined his outdoor exercise time with photographing buildings and monuments in his native Green Park. To preserve the character of this mid-Pandemic project, the pictures featured here have undergone minimal editing and the research is limited to the resources Jones had access to at the time. The result is an intriguing meld of highly localised travelogue and lockdown memento.

Reviews for The Buildings of Green Park: A tour of certain buildings, monuments and other structures in Mayfair and St. James’s

This book is as beguiling as a book can be...From the first glimpse of its most agreeable small format - so satisfying to hold and with a cover that positively sings of the delights to be found within - you are charmed out of your wits. -- Lucinda Lambton, The Oldie; The result is a concise insight into a slice of the capital's architecture that many of us walk past, but which few of us appreciate. -- Country Life;