Mit den Elementen der Natur schuf der Gartenarchitekt Le Notre einen künstlichen Kosmos und suggerierte dessen Grenzenlosigkeit. Der Autor spannt den Bogen von den ...
A contemporary of the famous landscape designer `Capability' Brown, Richard Woods has never received the recognition he deserves: in contrast to Brown, he emphasised ...
Fern Fever (or Pteridomania, to give it its official name), was popular in Britain between 1837 and 1914. Although in previous centuries ferns played ...
Garden design in England was entirely reinvented during the eighteenth century. The strictly symmetrical gardens of French Baroque wre replaced by artificial landscapes which ...
Thomas Haytor Mawson (1881-1933) began designing gardens in the 1890s. He forged his distinctive style - solid formality round the house with foreground terraces ...
This book is a fascinating survey of the development of gardens in Great Britain from their medieval origins in monasteries and castles, through the ...
This book tells the story of the pleasure gardens, explaining their beginnings in the seventeenth century, their rising social importance, the variety of entertainment ...
Often described as 'the most beautiful garden in England', Hidcote is a jewel in England's horticultural history. The garden's creator, Lawrence Johnston, was inspired ...
The first book to explore the evolution of the Persian paradise garden from its ancient beginnings to today's modern designs, "Gardens of Persia" is ...
E ancora ritrovo Bomarzo. Ne avevo vaghi ricordi, cero già stata. Ricordavo alcune figure mostruose. Con del Re, ceravamo inoltrati nel cuore del giardino ...
Come tutte le storie del giardino anche questa inizia dalle civiltà più antiche e dedica molta attenzione alla Roma dellImpero. Questo percorso, consueto, non ...
Marie-Antoinette has been idolized as the height of eighteenth-century French style and vilified as the spark that ignited the French Revolution. This book departs ...
Baroque Garden Cultures: Emulation, Sublimation, Subversion proposes a new approach to the study of baroque gardens, examining the social reception of gardens as a ...
The gardens of Versailles are perhaps the most famous in the world. Seemingly open to the horizon, their scale is monumental. Their grand east-west ...
