Cottages and Villas

The Birth of the Garden Suburb

by Mireille Galinou

480 Pages, 8.75 x 10.50 in, 55 b-w + 250 color illus.

Hardcover
9780300167269
Published: Tuesday, 22 Feb 2011

$65.00

Buy

Shipping Location

Our website offers shipping to the United States and Canada only. For customers in other countries:

Mexico and South America: Contact TriLiteral to place your order.
All Others: Visit our Yale University Press London website to place your order.

Choose a Shipping Location

Shipping Updated

Also Available At:

Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Bookshop
Indiebound
Indigo
Powell's
Seminary Co-op

Description
Authors
Praise

The garden suburb has its origins in London, and, contrary to widespread belief, its earliest phase took place not at the beginning of the 20th century, with the much discussed garden-city movement, but one century earlier, with the creation of the Eyre brothers' villa estate in the London suburb of St. John's Wood. Drawing on the resources of the newly catalogued Eyre archive, Mireille Galinou describes how London acquired one of its most attractive and influential suburbs and how generations of the Eyre family shaped, fought over, lost, and revitalized their inheritance. Little did they know that they were making world history with their winning formula, which set the green suburb agenda for middle classes around the world.

Mireille Galinou is a freelance arts and museums consultant. She is the co-author (with John Hayes) of London in Paint: Catalogue of Oil Paintings in the Collection of the Museum of London (1996).

"Cottages and Villas is a valuable contribution to the history of London, lavishly produced and illustrated."—Alan Powers, The Times Literary Supplement
~Alan Powers, The Times Literary Supplement

Winner of the 2013 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, given by the Foundation for Landscape Studies.
~2013 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, Foundation for Landscape Studies

Cottages and Villas

The Birth of the Garden Suburb

Shipping Location

Related Books

Sign up for updates on new releases and special offers

Newsletter Signup