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The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden: Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats
Kate Felus
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Description for The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden: Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 25. .
Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures. The Georgian garden has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water - a landscape for contemplation. But scratch below the surface and history reveals these gardens were a lot less serene and, in places, a great deal more scandalous.Beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white, this book is about the daily life of the Georgian garden. It reveals its previously untold secrets from early morning rides through ... Read more
Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures. The Georgian garden has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water - a landscape for contemplation. But scratch below the surface and history reveals these gardens were a lot less serene and, in places, a great deal more scandalous.Beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white, this book is about the daily life of the Georgian garden. It reveals its previously untold secrets from early morning rides through ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784535728
SKU
V9781784535728
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Kate Felus
Kate Felus is a garden historian and historic landscape consultant. She researches designed landscapes of all periods, specializing particularly in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century parks and gardens.
Reviews for The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden: Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats
an enticing new study...Felus's book is itself an entertainment, written with a light touch and - like a good party - of just the right length. Its scholarly underpinnings are fully present and correct...generously illustrated with apposite figures...Strongly recommended.
Paul Stamper, parksandgardens.org, January 2017 'delightful'
Henrik Bering, The New Criterion December 2016
Paul Stamper, parksandgardens.org, January 2017 'delightful'
Henrik Bering, The New Criterion December 2016