The architectural historian Oliver Gerrish chooses an idyllic Edgar Wood landscape.
Oliver Gerrish chooses Italian Hilltop Farm by Edgar Wood
‘Edgar Wood is one of my favourite architects. He had always wanted to be an artist, but his cotton-magnate father did not think it suitable as a career. After his father’s death in 1909, Wood devoted much more of his life to art. Only a year before, he had created perhaps his most remarkable house, Upmead, Stafford, for…
