The first major illustrated monograph in many years on the history of gardens, landscape design, and architecture, focusing on both the Western and Eastern ...
Gardening became a popular pastime in Victorian Britain with the rise of suburban gardens and a passion for the outdoors. New plant introductions from ...
Georgian garden buildings often seem monuments to rich mens' folly and whimsy, but they always had a purpose, whether functional or ornamental. Today they ...
The Pinturesque was an aesthetic concept that aroused enormous interest and some controversy, towards the end of the eighteenth century. It was a way ...
This second volume of Hertfordshire garden history considers how Hertfordshire's historic parks and gardens - some still existing, many others lost - have been ...
First published in 1892, this work by the architect Reginald Theodore Blomfield (1856-1942), illustrated by Francis Inigo Thomas (1865-1950), uses historical evidence to vindicate ...
Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was one of the most important figures in English garden history although he is rarely recognised as such. An eclectic ...
This book offers a fascinating new dimension to the history of Roman society and of gardening and horticulture. The author, a classicist and archaeology ...
Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the ...
Ce catalogue accompagne lexposition présentée au Petit Château du Domaine de Sceaux. Il rassemble près de cinquante oeuvres provenant de grands musées de province ...
