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John Nash: East Cowes Castle
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In 1813 Nash was appointed one of the three "attached architects" to the Board of Works. Tow years later he began the transformation of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, then a simple classical villa, into an Oriental dream palace with an Indian exterior and a richly fantastic chinoiserie interior, which became the most magnificent expression of Chinese taste in Europe. For the building of Buckingham Palace (1825-1830), when his creative powers were failing, Nash incurred severe official criticism. After the death of George VI in 1830, he was dismissed from the Board of Works and retired to East Cowes Castle, where he died on May 13, 1835.
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Nash died on May 13, 1835, at East Cowes Castle, his country house on the Isle of Wight. His reputation suffered greatly towards the end of his life. It is true that he was often over-hasty and left much of the detail to his office, with varying results, and that his control over the process of building was often inept. Certainly his use of stucco where his clients could not afford stone did not endear him to the earnest Victorians, but today the flashy glamour of the Regency is forgiven, and Nash’s unfailing ability to marry the built and natural environments is seen as an achievement from which many architects and town planners could learn. His last major project was the plan for Trafalgar Square (1832).
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Nash died five years later on May 13th in a house of his own design, East Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight. Built in1798, this design alone had a measurable influence on early Gothic revivalism in England and abroad.
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