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Item Number: 130611
Title: WILLIAM FLOCKHART : A Maverick Architect for the Nouveaux Riches
Author: Calder, Alan
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781907730344
Description: Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2014. 25cm., hardcover, 152pp. illus., most in color. Summary: William Flockhart (1852-1913) was an important and influential London-based Scottish architect whose work was regularly published in the architectural journals and exhibited at the Royal Academy. In an age of superb draughtsmen, he was in the top league. An able and eclectic designer, he could orchestrate a repertoire of varied historical styles to produce dramatic and original compositions. His clients were principally the ‘nouveau riches’ – shipping magnates, business entrepreneurs, bankers, diamond merchants, art dealers, artists and photographers – and this study explores how he addressed their aspirations, often with extravagant, opulent and inventive designs. There are detailed descriptions of Flockhart’s elegant houses, studios and business premises in London, his sophisticated town houses in Mayfair, and his grand country houses which culminated in Rosehaugh House, a monumental Wagnerian chateau cum mansion, in Ross and Cromarty. This monograph provides important new research on the significant part played by Scottish architects working in London at the end of the nineteenth century and complements the author’s previous book on Flockhart’s closest contemporary, arts and crafts architect James Majoribanks MacLaren.
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