在这本永不过时和美丽的书中，**建筑和室内设计师、作家、店主和博主Ben Pentreath对经典英式风格进行了全新而富有洞察力的概述。

在参观了12个非常不同的家之后，Ben探索并评价了英国房子具备的一种****的精神——既内敛又简约，同时又有着丰富的颜色和质感。

本书分为三个部分：伦敦、乡村和乡间别墅，介绍的室内设计从位于伦敦历史悠久的圣詹姆斯的一间20世纪30年代的小公寓到设计师Veere Grenney位于萨福克和沃丁顿的一个口袋大小的雅典娜神殿式建筑。Ben自己位于伦敦中心和西多塞特的房子也包括在内。

这些住宅在建筑风格、大小、形状和年代方面差异很大，但它们都有一个共同点：**英式风格。

Visiting 12 very different homes, Ben explores and appraises the unique spirit of the English House – at once restrained and simple yet overflowing with a generosity of touch and a richness of colour and texture.

The book is divided into three sections: London, Country, and Country House, and the interiors featured range from a 1930s pied-a-terre in London's historic St James to designer Veere Grenney's pocket-sized Palladian Temple folly in Suffolk and Wardington, a 16th-century stone manor house in North Oxfordshire. Ben’s own homes, in central London and West Dorset, are also included.

These homes vary greatly in architecture, size, shape and age, but they all have in common a peculiarly English style – richly-layered rooms that deftly intertwine colour and pattern and a mix of old and new furniture to create timeless and comfortable places to live.