Adapted largely from the celebrated 'House of the Week' column in The Times property section - about unknown gems in private hands seen for the first time as they come up for sale. At nearly 900 pages a huge doorstopper of a book - the perfect Christmas present in the mould of Simon Jenkins' England's Thousand Best Houses which sold over 50,000 copies at 30.
Marcus Binney studied the history of art at Cambridge and became the editor of Country Life Magazine in 1984. He was awarded the OBE for services to conservation in 1983. Since 1991 he has been Architecture Correspondent of the Times, writing extensively on architecture including the House of the Week column. His books range from Our Vanishing Heritage (1984) to Great Houses in Europe (2003) which is also the title of a 39-part TV series which has been broadcasted extensively in North America, the Middle and Far East.Previous titles:Various titles for other publishers.
Colleagues who have seen Binney at work...will know his pocket notebooks...Some of us may have wondered what would be come of their contents; we now have our answer. This book is a memorial to Binney's Flying Dutchman-like pursuit of architecture throughout Britain, and his remarkable eclecticism of taste. - Clive Aslet - Country Life
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