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Eccentric Gardens
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Author : Jane Owen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Eccentric Gardens written by Jane Owen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Gardening categories.
An unforgettable celebration of the marriage of two glorious traditions--gardens and eccentricity--in an exhilarating tour of the world's most original private gardens. Jane Owen presents 25 one-of-a-kind gardens in 100 stunning color photographs that reveal the visual pleasure of these quirky masterpieces. Advertising in magazines.
English Garden Eccentrics
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Author : Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
language : en
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
Release Date : 2022-04-26
English Garden Eccentrics written by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan and has been published by Paul Mellon Centre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-26 with Architecture categories.
A highly original examination of a series of unique gardens made by English eccentrics from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries In his new book, Todd Longstaffe-Gowan looks at a series of unique gardens made by English eccentrics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their unusual creators--from the superstitious antiquary William Stukeley (d.1765), to the pleasure-ground proprietor Jonathan Tyers (d.1767), and the bird-loving Lady Reade (d.1811)--built miniature mountains, shaped topiary, collected animals, excavated caves, and assembled architectural fragments to realize their gardens in a way that was, and sometimes still is, thought to be excessive. Bringing together garden and landscape history with cultural history and biography, English Garden Eccentrics examines what it is about the gardener and his or her creation that can be seen as eccentric and analyzes an area of garden history that has scarcely been previously explored: gardens seen as expressions of the singular character of their makers, and therefore functioning, in effect, as a form of autobiography. This lively and accessible book calls on gardeners today to learn from example and dare to be eccentric.
Gardens Of Obsession
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Author : Gordon Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 1999
Gardens Of Obsession written by Gordon Taylor and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Gardening categories.
"A fertility sculpture garden in Bangkok and a topiary cemetery in Ecuador are just two of the astonishing stops on this garden-world romp."--Conde Nast Garden. "...infectiously enthuses about gardens on the cutting edge: the audacious, the radical, and the astonishing....Cooper and Taylor take us on a wild and satisfying ride..."--Garden Design Magazine. "...an eye-popping worldwide survey of garden statuary, from surreal to monumental to cheerfully obscene."--Chicago Tribune.
An Englishman S Home
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Author : Tom Hart Dyke
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-15
An Englishman S Home written by Tom Hart Dyke and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Gardening categories.
Tom Hart Dyke has a bit of a thing about plants. You might call it an obsession. You might call him certifiable, in fact. But it's a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ramshackle country estate and an obsession with plant collecting could want for only one thing - in Tom's case it's a walled garden containing examples of plants collected from every corner of the globe. Tom's infectious enthusiasm for anything with chlorophyll in it and the hugely ambitious World Garden project he has undertaken at his family home, Lullingstone Castle, in Kent have been documented in a 12-part television series for BBC 2. The first six parts (Save Lullingstone Castle) were shown in spring 2006, and the second six episodes (Return to Lullingstone Castle) in spring 2007 to coincide with hardback publication. Tom's attempts to set up the World Garden aren't exactly straightforward. You might imagine, for example, that the easiest way to start preparing the ground inside the walled Elizabethan garden which he transforms into the main part of the world garden would be to enlist the help of a few people and a lot of hard digging. Well not for Tom, who enlists instead two large pigs, who do indeed do a great job of turning over the earth and fertilising it with great organic manure. But the problem is that they keep escaping into the Hart Dyke family burial plot next door where they start digging up Tom's ancestors... The World Garden is created to bring together a truly amazing collection of plants from every continent and so to show the global origins of the plants we all grow in our gardens. It's already establishing itself as a tourist attraction of some note as well as an educational resource. This is a book for all those who bought Tim Smit's Lost Gardens of Heligan. It's stuffed full of fascinating botanical information as well as the story of Tom's hapless struggle to overcome huge logistical nightmares. It's a riveting, hilarious story of English eccentricity in full bloom.
The Eccentric Garden
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Author : Jane Owen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-10-01
The Eccentric Garden written by Jane Owen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-10-01 with categories.
Eccentric Spaces
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Author : Robert Harbison
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2000-02-28
Eccentric Spaces written by Robert Harbison and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-28 with Architecture categories.
The subject is the human imagination—and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the manifold forms created by the mind for its own pleasure. Like all of Robert Harbison's works, Eccentric Spaces is a hybrid, informed by the author's interests in art, architecture, fiction, poetry, landscape, geography, history, and philosophy. The subject is the human imagination—and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the manifold forms created by the mind for its own pleasure. Palaces and haunted houses, Victorian parlors, Renaissance sculpture gardens, factories, hill-towns, ruins, cities, even novels and paintings constructed around such environments—these are the spaces over which the author broods. Brilliantly learned, deliberately remote in form from conventional scholarship, Eccentric Spaces is a magical book, an intellectual adventure, a celebration. Since its original publication in 1977, Eccentric Spaces has had a devoted readership. Now it is available to be discovered by a new generation of readers.
Eccentric Britain
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Author : Benedict Le Vay
language : en
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Release Date : 2005
Eccentric Britain written by Benedict Le Vay and has been published by Bradt Travel Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Reference categories.
A delightful romp around the British Isles searching out the mad marquess, the eccentric earl, the barmy baron, and the daft duke and gathering a fair collection of crackpot inventors, weird adventurers and fascinatingly and not to mention insanely curious customs along the way. All of which make this rainy little island home to that remarkable breed of individual - the British eccentric.This expanded book still doesn't tell you where Stonehenge is, but it does tell you where ten spookier stone circles are where there will be no crowds, no admission charges and no parking problems... This is a book for the intelligent, humorous, curious tourist who doesn't go with the crowd. It is also a great armchair read that has been known to have readers weeping with mirth at the weird ways of the British.
Ben Le Vay S Eccentric Britain
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Author : Benedict Le Vay
language : en
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Release Date : 2011
Ben Le Vay S Eccentric Britain written by Benedict Le Vay and has been published by Bradt Travel Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Humor categories.
A Tesco on every corner, Boden catalogues piled through the letterbox, and Center Parcs holidays - Britain has been overrun by all-pervasive corporate sameness. Or has it? Ben le Vay - expert on all things eccentric - reveals the quirky gems hidden near your home: hotter than the spice girls everywhere, Norfolk's fascinating Mustard Museum; Devon's Gnome Reserve, home to over 1,000 of Britain's beloved garden characters; or the fourth Earl of Dunmore's eccentric home, The Pineapple. Encompassing eccentric pastimes, aristocrats and bizarre last wishes, Ben le Vay's Eccentric Britain is both a humorous and entertaining read, as well as practical guide to some of Britain's most peculiar and unexpected monuments, gardens and museums. Benedict le Vay is a features editor on a leading British newspaper. He spends his spare time researching zany facts about the British and their way of life. He is also the author of Bradt's Eccentric London and Britain from the Rails.
Paradise Of Exiles
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Author : Katie Campbell
language : en
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Paradise Of Exiles written by Katie Campbell and has been published by White Lion Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with American categories.
DIVThe crumbling, abandoned villas above Florence proved irresistible to an eccentric colony of late 19th-century English and American expatriates. This entertaining book features 20 of these characters and the unusual gardens they created. They include bereaved philosopher Charles Strong, whose Rockefeller in-laws financed his villa retreat; crossdressing English essayist Violet Paget; beautiful Serbian Princess Jeanne Ghika, who lived in seclusion with her American companion Miss Blood; and eccentric English romance writer Ouida. These Anglo-Florentines injected new life into Tuscany's decrepit gardens, touring the countryside for inspiration and trawling old libraries for treatises and manuals. Some smothered their walls with scented climbers, replaced gravel terraces with emerald lawns, and stuffed box parterres with bright bedding plants and orchards with exotic shrubs. Gorgeous photography, archival images, literary references, and gossipy tidbits bring this irresistible intersection of bohemia and nature to life.
The 3000 Mile Garden
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Author : Roger Phillips
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995-01
The 3000 Mile Garden written by Roger Phillips and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01 with Gardeners categories.