Adrian Tinniswood: The Houses of Guinness

Unravelling the stories of more than a dozen great Guinness houses, Adrian Tinniswood’s The Houses of Guinness opens the door to Irish palaces like Farmleigh (where the Edwardian ballroom is said to have a floor made from barrels brought from the brewery) and Luggala in the Wicklow Mountains, and to Biddesden, an exquisite William-and-Mary country house bought as a home for Bryan Guinness and his first wife Diana Mitford, and Robert Adam’s Kenwood on Hampstead Heath, which Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh saved from destruction and bequeathed to the British nation. This engaging history is abundantly illustrated with a selection of new and archival photographs and paintings.