Kensington Palace

Art, Architecture and Society

Olivia Fryman, Sebastian Edwards, Joanna Marschner , Deirdre Murphy

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Yale University Press
30 October 2018

Decorative arts; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial; British & Irish history

Go behind the scenes of generations of the British royal family, exploring both the glamour and domestic life inside the spectacular 300-year-old Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace is renowned for its architecture, splendid interiors, internationally important collections, and, of course, its royal residents. This lavish book thoroughly explores Kensington’s physical beauty and its history, presenting new material drawn from archives, newspapers, personal letters, images, and careful analysis of the building itself. Originally a fashionable Jacobean villa, Kensington was dramatically rebuilt in 1689 by Christopher Wren for the newly crowned monarchs, William III and Mary II. The palace became the favored London home of five sovereigns, yet also survived fires, partial collapse, bombings, and periods of neglect. Queen Victoria recognized the national significance of her birthplace and childhood home, turning the palace into her own memorial as well as a home for members of her extended family and their descendants. With over 450 illustrations, including specially commissioned reconstructions and historic plans, this volume explores the personal tastes and fashions of the British monarchy over the course of 300 years and provides insight into the 20th- and 21st-century royal family’s domestic life.

Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Contributions by: Sebastian Edwards, Joanna Marschner, Deirdre Murphy, Lee Prosser
Edited by: Olivia Fryman
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 289mm, Width: 248mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 2.449kg
ISBN: 9780300236538
ISBN 10: 0300236530
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 30 October 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Olivia Fryman is curator at the Chitra Collection, London, and was an assistant curator at the Royal Collection Trust and Historic Royal Palaces.

Reviews for Kensington Palace: Art, Architecture and Society

This beautiful, easy to read, volume of history is a book anyone would love to own -Wendy Lipke, Queensland Reviewers Collective Kensington Palace gathers a sumptuous array of photographs, sketches and oil paintings of the 300-year old stately building complex. - Ian Thomson, Evening Standard This compelling upstairs-downstairs history of the 'home for homeless royals' is lavishly illustrated with architectural drawings, state beds, artworks from the Royal Collection, and a near-psychedelic (for 1749) depiction of fireworks over the Thames at Whitehall. - Apollo, Off the Shelf