Abandoned Palaces

Great Houses, Mansions, Estates and Hotels Suspended in Time

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Pub Date 14 Jul 2019 | Archive Date 31 Jul 2019

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Description

Built to last, built to impress, built with style and grandeur – it is all the more remarkable when the most ostentatious of buildings fall into disrepair and become ruins. From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions, Abandoned Palaces tells the stories behind dilapidated structures from all around the world. From ancient Roman villas to the French colonial hill station in Cambodia that was one of the final refuges of the Khmer Rouge, the book charts the fascinating decline of what were once the homes and holiday resorts of the most wealthy. Ranging from crumbling hotels in the Catskill Mountains or in Mozambique to grand mansions in Taiwan, and from an unfinished Elizabethan summerhouse to a modern megalomaniac’s estate too expensive ever to be completed, the reasons for the abandonment of these buildings include politics, bankruptcy, personal tragedies, natural and man-made disasters, as well as changing tastes and fashions. With 150 outstanding colour photographs exploring more than 100 hauntingly beautiful locations, Abandoned Palaces is a brilliant and moving pictorial examination of worlds we have left behind.

Built to last, built to impress, built with style and grandeur – it is all the more remarkable when the most ostentatious of buildings fall into disrepair and become ruins. From imperial residences...


A Note From the Publisher

Please note the pdf is not an accurate colour reproduction of the images in the book. Part of a series of Abandoned titles that has had extensive coverage on nationals’ websites including the Guardian, Telegraph, Mail, Express and the Sun.

Please note the pdf is not an accurate colour reproduction of the images in the book. Part of a series of Abandoned titles that has had extensive coverage on nationals’ websites including the...


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Excerpts in national press and online. Author available for interview. Review copies available.

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