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At Home at Highclere: Entertaining at the Real Downton Abbey

Door The Countess of Carnarvon

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#330739-KF27
Titel
At Home at Highclere: Entertaining at the Real Downton Abbey
Auteur
Carnarvon, The Countess of
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York : Rizzoli
Jaar van uitgave
2020
ISBN10
0847860973
ISBN13
9780847860975
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blue boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous (full pagre and double page) colour photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting

Written by the current lady of the manor, this book gives complete access to the world-renowned historic country house and showcases the art of entertaining, past and present. Highclere Castle, famed as the setting for Downton Abbey, is the epitome of how we imagine the perfect English country house. Long the Carnarvon fami ly's ancestral country seat, Highclere has welcomed royalty, statesmen, and notables from the worlds of business, academia, and the arts for shooting parties, elegant fetes, and celebrations in the grand style. Lady Fiona Carnarvon, the current chatelaine, invites readers inside Highclere, past and present, as she describes how to entertain in the style of a stately English country house: the etiquette of the invi tation, multi-course meals, correct seating arrange me... (Lees verder)nts, proper attire, setting the table. She delves into family archives to highlight four real-life historic weekend parties over a seventy-year period during which Highclere hosted an ever-changing cast of notable figures-including Benjamin Disraeli and the Prince of Wales-exploring how society and enter taining changed decade by decade. Complete with gorgeous full-color photography of Highclere's rooms and punctuated by charming archival images, the book explores changing menus, fashionable cocktails of the day, and includes, where practical, adaptations for recipes which can be used for entertaining in the present day.
Pagina's
287
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 30,00

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