Munstead Wood
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Published 2022-10-30
Panel: Clive Aslet, Annabel Watts
Host & Moderator: Robin Prater
Visit Munstead Wood, one of Edwin Lutyens’s most iconic early Arts and Crafts houses. Designed as the home of Gertrude Jekyll, Munstead Wood illustrates the ways in which the pair worked together to integrate house and garden seamlessly.
Sep 22, 2022
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Clive Aslet
Chairman of the Lutyens Trust
Clive has recently become the Chairman of the Lutyens Trust and is a writer, publisher and Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is The Story of the Country House, published by Yale University Press, a short narrative history based on decades of writing about the subject. In 2019, Clive collaborated with the photographer Dylan Thomas on Old Homes, New Life: the Resurgence of the British Country House, published by the imprint they set up together: Triglyph Books. It looks at the role of the country house in the 21st century.
Annabel Watts
Annabel Watts is head gardener of the celebrated Victorian horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll's Munstead Wood gardens.
All Comments (6)
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Magnificent webinar! This could not have been better. What a gift from the Lutyens Trust. Many, many thanks.
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Wonderful xxx
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very good video If in London -- one of his monuments can be seen between Downing st and Trafalgar square --- cenotaph war memorial -- every year monarch attends a ceremony at the sight ///// wikipedia notes not me ---- ticked video thanks ... Before the end of the First World War, he was appointed one of three principal architects for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now Commonwealth War Graves Commission) and was involved with the creation of many monuments to commemorate the dead. Larger cemeteries have a Stone of Remembrance, designed by him.[18] The best known of these monuments are The Cenotaph in Whitehall, Westminster, and the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval. The Cenotaph was originally commissioned by David Lloyd George as a temporary structure to be the centrepiece of the Allied Victory Parade in 1919. Lloyd George proposed a catafalque, a low empty platform, but it was Lutyens' idea for the taller monument. The design took less than six hours to complete. Lutyens also designed many other war memorials, and others are based on or inspired by Lutyens' designs. Examples of Lutyens' other war memorials include the War Memorial Gardens in Dublin, the Tower Hill memorial, the Manchester Cenotaph and the Arch of Remembrance memorial in Leicester.
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Very interesting. They certainly didn't run out of interesting things to describe within the allotted hour.
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not to mention his special relationship with the viceroy of India?
