Summary: Taking a cue from a burgeoning revisionist scholarship devoted to early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology - the eighteenth-century brick terraced house - and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction. Opening with a cultural history of the building tradesman in terms of his reception within contemporary architectural discourse, subsequent chapters consider the design, decoration and marketing of the town house in the principal cities of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British Atlantic world. It is essential reading for students and scholars of the history of architectural design and interior decoration specifically, and of eighteenth-century society and culture generally.

Contents: Introduction - a new apology for the builder. 1. Building reputations - social and architectural discourse. 2. Making houses - design and the building process. 3. Decorating houses - style and the business of taste. 4. Selling houses - advertising and the property market. Conclusion - the builder rehabilitated. (Studies in Design and Material Culture)

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