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Brighton and Hove

BOOK Brighton is raffish and curvaceous, but Pevsner only hints at its danger, says Robert Harbison Brighton and Hove (Pevsner Architectural Guides) by Nicholas Antram & Richard Morrice, Yale University Press, 244 pp, £9.99

Brighton is not known for its architectural seriousness. The Prince Regent, George IV, put his irresponsible stamp on the place with the Royal Pavilion (1815-1822), a pleasure dome that ate up £500,000 in pursuit of no higher purpose than decorative excess. Experts have identified Indian, Islamic, Chinese and Rococo elements in the mixture of exotic styles, but treating the Pavilion as a textbook of architectural motifs seems fairly perverse. It's a folly, and to ...

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