Two albums of drawings by Capability BrownÔÇÖs draughtsman, John Spyers, were recently discovered in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg and are here reproduced ...
Un guide qui conjugue la génèse des jardins d'Arnaud Maurières et Éric Ossart, leurs sources d'inspiration (souvent inattendues) et une visite commentée donnant au ...
This book provides an overview of the extent to which the 18th-century English Landscape Garden spread through Europe and Russia. While this type of ...
I giardini di Firenze, ultima opera inedita di Angiolo Pucci, aveva assunto fino a qualche tempo fa un carattere quasi leggendario. Le poche notizie ...
Garden design evolved hugely during the Georgian period - as symbols of wealth and stature, the landed aristocracy had been using gardens for decades. ...
Inspired by the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White, who viewed natural history as the common study of cultural and natural communities, Mark Laird unearths forgotten ...
A beautifully illustrated volume on the Tudor-style house, a keystone in American interiors and architecture. Since its birth in sixteenth-century England, the Tudor-style house ...
This is a set that brings together scholarly work on historical, conceptual, and technical aspects of the urban landscape. The role of landscape, as ...
In 1890, Frederick Law Olmsted, then nearly sixty-eight years old, had risen to the pinnacle of his career. Together with his partners, stepson John ...
Across the world hundreds of botanic gardens combine scientific research, conservation and beauty with public access, with Kew Gardens alone attracting around one million ...
In Wasteland, Vittoria Di Palma takes on the "anti-picturesque," offering an account of landscapes that have traditionally drawn fear and contempt. Di Palma argues ...
Marie Luise Gothein (1863-1931) published this scholarly two-volume history of garden design in German in 1913. Its second edition of 1925 was translated into ...
Marie Luise Gothein (1863-1931) published this scholarly two-volume history of garden design in German in 1913. Its second edition of 1925 was translated into ...
From castle to cottage, nearly every medieval dwelling possessed an enclosed plot for growing herbs, food, and flowers. This illustrated survey of gardening lore ...
An authoritative and superbly illustrated celebration of the great gardens of the United States and Canada from the author of the highly acclaimed The ...
The phrase "designed landscape" is generally associated with the great parks and gardens of the post-medieval period, with grand country houses surrounded by parkland, ...
