Fascinating talk. Happily I see Munstead Wood has been purchased by the National Trust which is now restoring the house and gardens. The hope is it will open in 2025 for public visits and will be there for all to enjoy in perpetuity.
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.
Fascinating talk. Happily I see Munstead Wood has been purchased by the National Trust which is now restoring the house and gardens. The hope is it will open in 2025 for public visits and will be there for all to enjoy in perpetuity.
Wonderful. !!! Many many thanks. Warren
Magnificent webinar! This could not have been better. What a gift from the Lutyens Trust. Many, many thanks.
Wonderful xxx
Very interesting. They certainly didn't run out of interesting things to describe within the allotted hour.
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.
not to mention his special relationship with the viceroy of India?