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Other Portmeirion Information Resources

Selected Books on Portmeirion and Sir Clough Williams-Ellis

• Calloway, Stephen. Baroque, Baroque: The Culture of Excess.
  London: Phaidon, 1994.
• Foy, Howard. A Guided Tour of Portmeirion.
  Manchester : Box Publishing, 1991.
• Haslam, Richard. Clough Williams-Ellis.
  London : Academy Editions, 1996.
• Jenkins, Steven, and McKay, Stephen P. Portmeirion Pottery.
  Richard Dennis Pubs, 2000
• Jones, David. Portmeirion Explored, a guide for visitors.
  1995.
• Jones, Jonah. Clough Williams-Ellis: the architect of Portmeirion, a memoir.
  Bridgend, Wales : Seren, 1996.
• Matthew, Christopher. A Different World: Stories of Great Hotels.
  New York: Paddington Press, 1976.
• Peck, M. Scott. In Search of Stones.
  New York: Hyperion, 1995.
• Portmeirion Guidebook.
  Portmeirion, 2000
• Senior, Michael. Figures in a Landscape: A Guide to the Great Historical Characters of North Wales, Part Two: The 18th to 20th centuries.
  Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2000.
• Szczelkun, Stefan. The Conspiracy of Good Taste: William Morris, Cecil Sharp, Clough Williams-Ellis and the Repression of Working Class Culturre in the 20th Century.
  London: Working Press, 1993.
• Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys are Cousins, a Memoir.
  London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983.
• Williams-Ellis, Amabel. Clough Williams-Ellis, a portrait in words.
  Portmeirion : Golden Dragon Books, 1981.
• Williams-Ellis, Amabel & Clough. Headlong Down the Years: a tale of to-day.
  Liverpool : University Press, 1951.
• Williams-Ellis, Clough. Architect Errant.
  Portmeirion : Golden Dragon Books, 1980.
• Williams-Ellis, Clough. Around the World in Ninety Years.
  Portmeirion : Golden Dragon Books, 1978.
• Williams-Ellis, Clough. Portmeirion, its what? when? why? and how variously explained.
  Glasgow : David J. Clark, 1973?.
• Williams-Ellis, Clough. Portmeirion, its what? when? why? and how variously explained.
  Whitchurch : Herald, 1994.
• Williams-Ellis, Clough. Portmeirion Still Further Illustrated and Explained.
  15th ed. Glasgow : Blackie & Son, 1965.
• Williams-Ellis, Clough. Portmeirion Still Further Explained.
  10th ed. Glasgow : Blackie & Son, 1958.
• Williams-Ellis, Clough. Portmeirion, the place and its meaning.
  Revised Ed. Glasgow : MacLehose, 1973.
• Williams-Ellis, Clough & Amabel. The Pleasures of Architecture.
  London: Jonathan Cape, 1924.

Journal Articles

• Amster, Robin. "Portmeirion: an 'ideal' fantasyland village in North Wales"
  June 22, 1992 v.51, no.50 p.E19(2) Travel Weekly
• Bellamy, Vivien. "Village of dreams: the holiday village of Portmeirion in North Wales"
  March 1990 v.6, no.6 p. 11-13 Traditional Homes
• Berman, Rita. "Whimsical village of Portmeirion"
  April 1996 v.21, no.2 p.131 International Travel News
• Best, Alastair. "Hotels resurrected"
  May 1989 no.47 p.36-44 Designers' Journal
• Bossom, Peter. "La citta' di Sir Clough"
  May 1983 no.214 p.78-83 Abitare
• Cornforth, John. "Portmeirion revisited"
  v.160 Sept. 16, 1976 p.726-729 continued v.160 Sept. 23, 1976 p.798-801 Country Life
• Crawford, Sue. "The unexpected gardens of Wales"
  June 4, 1995 Section 5 p.8-9+ New York Times
• DeJongh, N. "Dreamer architect: C. Williams-Ellis, designer of Portmeirion"
  May 1978 p.32 Crawdaddy
• Dryansky, G.Y. "The wizard of Wales"
  June 1993 v.28 p.74+ Conde-Nast Traveller
• Fry, E. Maxwell. "Portmeirion"
  v.65 1928 p.871-884 Architects' Journal
• Hale Braun, Heywood. "Fantasy Peninsula"
  Sept. 1984 v.6 p.70(12) Geo
• Haslam, Richard. "Wale's universal architect."
  v.174 1983 p.130-132 Country Life
• Heard, Frank E. "Portmeirion, Wales"
  May 1980 v.154 p.4(4) Travel-Holiday
• Hussey, Christopher. "Large ideas for small estates, Portmeirion, Merioneth"
  v.67 1930 p.500-506 Country Life
• Hussey, Christopher. "Plas Brondanw, Merioneth"
  v.122 1957 p.434-437, 488-491 Country Life
• "Magical Portmeirion"
  May 1990 v.13, no.5 p.92(4) Country Living
• Morris, James. "In praise of a folly; Portmeirion, a gay architectural caprice on the Welsh coast"
  Summer 1965 v.7 p.16-19 Horizon
• Morris, Jan. "Visionary village; a Welsh architect conjures up a Mediterranean town on Cardigan Bay"
  Sept. 1990 v.162, no.9 p.82(1) House & Garden
• Owen, Bob. "Plas Brondanw",
  III, 1959 Journal of the Merioneth Historical & Records Society
• "Out of the ashes"
  Jan. 1989, suppl. p.36-37 Building Design
• Pehnt, Wolfgang. "Das Schelmenstuck von Portmeirion"
  May 1, 1981 v.72, no.17 p.694-698 Bauwelt
• Perry, E. "Home for fallen arches"
  Nov. 1972 v.52 p.28-29+ Holiday
• "Portmeirion."
  Oct. 1976, p. 417 RIBA Journal
• Powers, Alan. "Boo to the octopus"
  April 12, 1997 v.278, no.8802 p.46 The Spectator
• Rothenstein, John. "Clough Williams-Ellis",
  Jan. 6, 1926 Architects Journal, p.28-33, 64-65.
• "Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect and conservationist [obituary]"
  April 10, 1978 p.16 Times
• Williams-Ellis, Clough. "A retrospect"
  March 1960 v. XLVI Town Planning Review

Other

• Williams-Ellis, Clough. The Enchanted Village.
  30 minute videotape.
• Williams-Ellis, Clough. Portmeirion, the place and its meaning.
  25 minute videotape.