The formal garden in England
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The formal garden in England
（Cambridge library collection, Art and architecture）
Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Macmillan , 1892
"This digitally printed version 2013"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 a classical approach to garden design, in which a house and its surroundings are kept in harmony. It is a response to the work of the gardener and journalist William Robinson (1838-1935), who had written vehemently in favour of romantic, naturalistic gardens. Closely linked to the burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement as secretary to the Art-Workers' Guild under William Morris' presidency, Blomfield had developed a theory of garden design which held that it should be a reflection of architectural order: honest, vernacular simplicity as opposed to the 'wild garden'. Illustrative of the contemporary debate between architects and plantsmen, this instructive text, reissued in its second edition of 1892, captures a moment in this developing relationship in the years before Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll gave it new harmony.
Table of Contents
- Preface to second edition
- Preface to first edition
- 1. The formal method and the landscape gardener
- 2. The formal garden in England
- 3. The formal garden (cont.)
- 4. The end of the formal garden and the landscape school
- 5. The courts, terraces, walks
- 6. Knots, parterres, grass-work, mounts, bowling-greens, theatres
- 7. Fish-ponds, pleaching, arbours, galleries, hedges, palisades, groves
- 8. Garden architecture
- 9. Garden architecture (cont.)
- 10. Conclusion
- Appendices 1-3
- Index.
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