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A scholarly account of the origins of Waddesdon Manor and a catalogue of the celebrated panelling, describing and analysing the 385 individual elements.

Table of Contents

Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Rothschild Family Tree and Note References and Abbreviations The Architecture The Panelling The Catalogue List of work of Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur Photographic acknowledgements Index

About the Author

Bruno Pons trained as an art historian at the university of Strasbourg, specialising in the history of French and German Architecture and Decoration of the late 17th and 18th centuries. He has worked as museum curator at the Musee de la Medicine and has been instrumental in the creation of a national institute of art. He is also a physician specialising in Endocrinology.