The Laskett
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The Laskett
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Author : Roy Strong
language : en
Publisher: Bantam Press
Release Date : 2003
The Laskett written by Roy Strong and has been published by Bantam Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Authors, English categories.
This is the story of one man and a garden. It is also the portrait of a marriage expressed through the vision and mystery of creating a garden. Neither the author, Roy Strong, nor his wife, the designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, had foreseen this when they eloped and married in 1971. Over thirty years on they find themselves surrounded by the largest formal garden made in this country since 1945, increasingly recognized as one of the most important laid out in the second half of the twentieth century. And yet it was done not only with little money and less labour, but quite unconsciously. But it is not so much the horticultural triumph that will grip the reader as what this garden on the Welsh Borders in Herefordshire has come to mean in the lives of its creators. Into the Laskett has been etched not only their own biographies but also the many people who crossed their lives and are commemorated within it. That galaxy includes not only garden icons, like Rosemary Verey, Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe and Ian Hamilton Finlay, but figures as varied as the photographer Sir Cecil Beaton, the painter John Piper and the fashion designer Jean Muir. It also enshrines memories of two great Oxford intellectual dynasties, the Omans and Trevelyans, of the great choreographer, Sir Frederick Ashton, of the Prince of Wales and his garden at Highgrove as well as a colourful pageant of minor characters from mole catchers to cats. The Laskett is the unusual and unique story of someone who, with his wife, has been at the centre of the arts for half a century. A great love affair, a portrait of a marriage, a haunting and human tale of a garden as the domain of ghosts and as the habitat of memory, within itsconfines can be found both joy and happiness as well as the tears of tragedy. No one who reads this book will put it down unmoved.
The Laskett
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Author : Roy C. Strong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Laskett written by Roy C. Strong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Gardens categories.
Remaking A Garden The Laskett Transformed
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Author : Sir Roy Strong
language : en
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Release Date : 2014-07-08
Remaking A Garden The Laskett Transformed written by Sir Roy Strong and has been published by Frances Lincoln this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-08 with Gardens categories.
The garden at the Laskett in Herefordshire is always described as the largest formal garden laid out in Britain since the war and one of most important and interesting gardens of the second half of the twentieth century. It was made by Roy Strong and his wife, theatre designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, between 1973 and 2003. In the latter year Roy's book about the garden and how it was made (The Laskett: the story of a garden) was published, Julia died, and Roy started to remake the garden. Remaking a Garden: the Laskett Gardens Transformed is the story of that remaking, told by Roy, with photographs by Clive Boursnell, who has photographed the whole process from the beginning.
Timeless Landscape Design
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Author : Mary Palmer Dargan
language : en
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Release Date : 2007
Timeless Landscape Design written by Mary Palmer Dargan and has been published by Gibbs Smith this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Gardening categories.
"Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan share the secret to creating an unforgettable landscape with the "Four-Part Master Plan"-a unique method they've perfected over the past 25 years of creating award-winning gardens and yards. The Dargans share a blend of design techniques and practical advice on how to achieve the sophisticated look of a professionally designed landscape on any size and type of property. Design treatments are beautifully illustrated with color photographs, landscape plans, and before and after examples of the authors' work."--Publisher description.
Types And Shadows Diaries 2004 2015
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Author : Roy Strong
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-11-26
Types And Shadows Diaries 2004 2015 written by Roy Strong and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-26 with Literary Collections categories.
'Roy Strong's diaries are a treasure . . . magnificently readable' THE TIMES 'Essential reading' TATLER 'When it comes to viperish high-society gossip, Roy Strong is in a class of his own' DAILY MAIL In January 2004, where his third volume of Diaries begins, Roy Strong was in a state of deep grief following the death of his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman, three months earlier. Yet the following years demonstrate his determination, energy and creativity. New ideas for books are brought to fruition, regular forays into the worlds of TV and radio are made, concluding with the Sir Portrait exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and news of his forthcoming appointment as a Companion of Honour for services to the nation's culture. Encounters with churchmen, politicians, royalty - and friends old and new - are all described with a telling eye for detail and delicious wit. While there is frustration at the changing world around him, Types and Shadows is a hugely informative and entertaining record of a uniquely full and colourful life.
The Making Of Place
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Author : John Dixon Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2015-11-15
The Making Of Place written by John Dixon Hunt and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-15 with Architecture categories.
Gardening is rich in tradition, and many gardens are explicitly designed to refer to or honor the past. But garden design is also rich in innovation, and in The Making of Place John Dixon Hunt explores the wide varieties of approaches, aesthetics, and achievements in garden design throughout the world today. The gardens Hunt explores offer surprising new ideas about how we can carve out a space for respite in nature. Taking readers to gardens public and private, busy and hidden away, to botanical gardens, small parks, university campuses, and vernacular gardens, Hunt showcases the differences between cultures and countries around the globe, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, China, and Australia. Richly illustrated, The Making of Place is sure to enchant and inspire even the most modest of home gardeners.
Hugh Johnson In The Garden
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Author : Hugh Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-06-04
Hugh Johnson In The Garden written by Hugh Johnson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-04 with Gardening categories.
Tradescant's Diary, a column of garden jottings, first appeared in the RHS magazine, The Garden, in June 1975. Hugh Johnson was its author (in addition to his being Editorial Director of the magazine) and it became a monthly fixture for the RHS's committed gardeners. Hugh's writings are filled with an eclectic mixture of topical, whimsical and humorous anecdotes and are organised to follow a gardener's monthly calendar. Under the name Tradescant's Diary, a name taken from John Tradescant, gardener to Lord Cecil at Hatfield House and to King James I, who was one of the first men to introduce plants from foreign countries to his own garden, Hugh's writings appeared in The Garden from 1975-2006, in Gardens Illustrated in 2007, and in 2008 still appear as monthly blogs through his own website (www.tradsdiary.com).
Quiet Gardens
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Author : Susan Bowden-Pickstock
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2009-07-11
Quiet Gardens written by Susan Bowden-Pickstock and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-11 with Religion categories.
Quiet Gardens describes a journey that seeks to re-investigate humankind's relationship with nature and, through this, an understanding of what is spiritual. For many, enjoying and/or making a garden is both a connection with the wider environment and a link to that which is beyond ourselves. From some of the unusual and remarkable gardens of the Christian charity, the Quiet Garden Trust, and conversations with some of today's leading garden creators and thinkers, the journey takes us on a path of exploration and discovery, via Buddhist, Ba'hai and Islamic gardens, to the making of an inter-faith garden which won a medal at the Chelsea Flower Show. It shows us that the relationship between meaning, spirituality and horticulture transcends cultural and religious differences and offers hope for the future.
Writing The Garden
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Author : Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Release Date : 2014-04-24
Writing The Garden written by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers and has been published by Allison & Busby this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with Gardening categories.
Gardening has always attracted devotedly literate practitioners; people who like to dig, it would appear, also like to write. And many of them write exceedingly well. Focusing on gardeners' words about the art of gardening, and ranging in time and place from Enlightenment France to modern-day New York, Writing the Garden brings together a diverse array of authors including Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Roy Strong. For the most part they are not professional landscape designers or how-to horticulturalists, but rather hands-on gardeners who write with their own gardens in full view.
Splendours And Miseries The Roy Strong Diaries 1967 87
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Author : Roy Strong
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-08-10
Splendours And Miseries The Roy Strong Diaries 1967 87 written by Roy Strong and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy Strong is best known as the flamboyant former director of two great cultural institutions - the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum. In his first volume of diaries, he takes the reader into the heart of his career, revealing himself to be not just a mercurial and brilliant administrator, but also a shrewd observer of the glittering and political milieu into which he was drawn. We encounter David Hockney in his studio, the poignant figure of Cecil Beaton in decline, Nureyev fizzing with ideas and the Philistine Mrs Thatcher among many others, including a bevy of the Royal Family. And throughout the diaries runs the thread of an exceptional marriage, following his elopement with the designer Julia Trevelyan Oman. Splendours and Miseries provides a unique panorama of the world of the arts, fashion and society, taking us from the outrageous Swinging Sixties to the hard-edged glitz of Thatcher's Britain.