The Follies and Garden Buildings of Ireland

ISBN-13: 9780300102253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 270 str.

James Howley

Opis

This entertaining and lovely book--the first to focus solely on follies and other garden buildings in Ireland--re-creates in word and image the wonder of these picturesque and fanciful architectural oddities.
"A work of sustained scholarship and relish for the subject."--Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement
"A feast of ephemeral architectural embellishment."--House and Garden
" A] pioneering book. . . . It is beautifully designed and the well researched text is accompanied by excellent measured drawings and wonderful photographs. The volume is a delight to peruse, a veritable encyclopedia of the extraordinary and the fantastic."--Roger Stalley, The Irish Times
"A major achievement."--Deborah Singmaster, Architects' Journal