18 Folgate Street - Couverture souple

Severs, Dennis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099437368 ISBN 13 : 9780099437369

Editeur : Vintage, 2002

Synopsis

Growing up in California, Dennis Severs fell in love with the England he saw in old black and white movies. At seventeen, he came to London, looking for a home with a heart. In 1979, he found one, a run-down silk-weaver's house in Spitalfields, and over the next twenty years he transformed it into an enchanted time-capsule, transporting us back to the eighteenth century. From cellar to roof, he filled "18 Folgate Street" with original objects and furniture found in the local markets, lit by candles and chandeliers. More than that, he invented a family to live here, the Jervis family, Huguenot weavers who fled persecution in France in 1688, and bought the house in 1724. Sounds and scents bring their world to life, always just out of sight - floorboards creak, fires cracle, a kettle hisses on the hob. Visitors step through the frame of time, like entering old master painting. As we move from room to room on a tour you will never forget, we follow the Jervis story from the days of the Georges and the Regency to harsher Victorian times - and even to the attic room of Scrooge himself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in California in 1948, died in London in 1999. He came to live in England in 1967. Ran tours of London in a horse-drawn carriage. Then bought 18 Folgate Street and created his own 'still-life drama' of life and the house as they used to be.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099437368
• ISBN 13: 9780099437369
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible