Knole

A Private View of One of Britain's Great Houses

Robert Sackville-west, Ashley Hicks

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Rizzoli International Publications
04 January 2023

Professional interior design

Sumptuous photographs by designer Ashley Hicks – who recently photographed the interiors of Buckingham Palace – capture the smouldering spirit of Knole, from the state rooms, which house possibly the finest collection of royal Stuart furniture in the world, to the private apartments and gardens to the behind-the-scenes labyrinth of cellars and attics.

Knole provides a window onto English history. The characters who populate the pages – the grave Elizabethan statesman, the good-for-nothing gadabout at the seedy court of James I, the dashing cavalier, the Restoration rake, the 3rd Duke of the ancien régime – are all representative of their eras (members of a family described by Vita Sackville-West as 'a race too prodigal, too amorous, too weak, too indolent, and too melancholy'). Vita's own disinheritance from Knole prompted her dear friend Virginia Woolf to pen Orlando, furthering the place’s fame and glamorous lustre.

Similarly, the architectural and decorative features of the house illustrate the different tastes of successive ages, from Thomas Sackville’s seventeenth-century makeover of a ramshackle medieval mansion to an early twentieth-century suite of rooms designed in the Bloomsbury style. Knole has never been illuminated in this way before.

By: Robert Sackville-west, Ashley Hicks
Imprint: Rizzoli International Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 305mm, Width: 241mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780847872442
ISBN 10: 0847872440
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 04 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville, studied history at Oxford University and went on to work in publishing. He now chairs Knole Estates, the property and investment company that, in parallel with the National Trust, runs the Sackville family’s interests at Knole. Ashley Hicks is a British author, architect, interior and furniture designer, and photographer.

Reviews for Knole: A Private View of One of Britain's Great Houses

This book is perfect for any Anglophile. Readers get a glimpse inside the 600-year-old Knole estate, a sprawling country house located in Kent, England, that began its life as an archbishop's residence. Famed English decorator and photographer Ashley Hicks documents the house's many treasures with his astute designer's eye. -ELLEDECOR.COM