A THING IN DISGUISE. THE VISIONARY LIFE OF JOSEPH PAXTON
Autor/es
- EAN: 9780007143542
- ISBN: 978-0-00-714354-2
- Editorial: HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
- Año de la edición: 2004
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 13 X 20 cm.
- Páginas: 310
- Materias:
gardening
history, gardening styles
botanical gardens, greenhouses, hothouses, nurseries
great britain: architecture and art
18th century
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A brilliantly conceived biography of Joseph Paxton, horticulturist to the Duke & Duchess of Devonshire at Chatsworth, architect of the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and one of the greatest unsung heroes of the Victorian Age In the nineteenth century, which witnessed a revolution in horticulture and urban planning and architecture, Joseph Paxton, a man with no formal education, strode like a colossus. Head gardener at Chatsworth by the age of twenty-three, and encouraged by the sixth Duke of Devonshire whose patronage soon flourished into the defining friendship of his life, Paxton set about transforming this Derbyshire estate into the greatest garden in England. Visitors there were astonished by the enormous glasshouses and ambitious waterworks he built, the collection of orchids, the largest in all England, the dwarf bananas and the gargantuan lily, the trees and plants brought back from all over the world.
