A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 278
kitchen and offices wereplaced at an inconvenient distance from the living rooms ofthe house. With the introduction of Palladianism, early in the seven-teenth century, all this was changed. Inigo Jones came backfrom Italy with his mind saturated with the designs of Palladio,and he set to work to… … STAIRCASE, ASHLBURNHAM HOUSE. floor was treated specifically as a basement: Inigo Jones ex-pressly notes in his Palladio that cellars and other magazinesshould never be put under ground. The first floor becamethe piano nobile which controlled the whole plan, and usually 2i8 HOUSE PLANNING [chap,…
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