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The Arts and Crafts Garden (Shire Library)
Sarah Rutherford
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Description for The Arts and Crafts Garden (Shire Library)
Paperback. Explores the winding paths and meticulously shaped hedges, the gazebos and gateways, the formal terraces and the billowing border plantings that characterised the Arts and Crafts garden, and directs readers and gardeners to where they can visit and be inspired by these beautiful works of art. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 80 pages, 30 b/w; 40 col. BIC Classification: ACVN; WMD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 184.
The Arts and Crafts Movement espoused values of simplicity, craftsmanship and beauty quite counter to Victorian and Edwardian industrialism. Though most famous for its architecture, furniture and ornamental work, between the 1890s and the 1930s the movement also produced gardens all over Britain whose designs, redolent of a lost golden era, had worldwide influence. These designs, by luminaries such as Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Edwin Lutyens, were engaging and romantic combinations of manor-house garden formalism and the naive charms of the cottage garden – but from formally clipped topiary to rugged wild borders, nothing was left to chance. Sarah Rutherford ... Read more
The Arts and Crafts Movement espoused values of simplicity, craftsmanship and beauty quite counter to Victorian and Edwardian industrialism. Though most famous for its architecture, furniture and ornamental work, between the 1890s and the 1930s the movement also produced gardens all over Britain whose designs, redolent of a lost golden era, had worldwide influence. These designs, by luminaries such as Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Edwin Lutyens, were engaging and romantic combinations of manor-house garden formalism and the naive charms of the cottage garden – but from formally clipped topiary to rugged wild borders, nothing was left to chance. Sarah Rutherford ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Shire
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Shire Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747812982
SKU
V9780747812982
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Ref
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About Sarah Rutherford
Sarah Rutherford is a Kew-trained gardener with an MA in the conservation of historic parks and gardens from York University. She worked for English Heritage assessing sites across England for the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, becoming Head of the Register. She is now an enthusiastic freelance consultant researching and writing conservation plans for parks and gardens.
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