The Formal Garden in England

ISBN-13: 9781108061407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 284 str.

Reginald Theodore Blomfield;F. Inigo Thomas

Opis

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."