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Sunday, 20 November 2011

Arts And Crafts

    Portmeirion - a beautiful place, described as being Italianate, yet enjoys a whole multi-cultural style of architecture.


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4 comments:

  1. Many people say it was an impersonation of Portofino, but Clough would have none of that sort of talk. Perhaps he didn't want to pay royalties..... ;-D

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  2. Hello Moor,

    "Portmeirion - Meirion giving its county and 'Port' placing it on its coast. Also it was a little affectionate memory of Portofino, first introduced to me by Eric Kennington, to which I had immediately and hopelessly lost my heart. Hopelessly, because the object of my affection could be no hope of any architectural intervention on my part in my beloved's future. The solution - to create my own Portofino as near home as might be - no sort of copy whether in grouping or detail, but an attempt to capture some of the friendly intimacy of so many coastal towns and villages, partically in the south and particullarly Portofino."
    'Portmeirion - The Place & Its Meaning' by Clough Williams-Ellis.

    Regards
    David
    BCNU

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  3. So the things I have read seem not to be true. In fact, the very opposite seems to be the case.... :-D .. How delightfully prisoneresque.

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  4. Hello Moor,

    Yes, that seems to be the way of things, Portmeirion compliments 'the Prisoner,' and vice versa, and in more ways than we might at first think.

    Regards
    David
    BCNU

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