Bibliograph

The arts and crafts garden, Sarah Rutherford

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The arts and crafts garden, Sarah Rutherford

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The arts and crafts garden

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

854849414

Responsibility statement

Sarah Rutherford

Series statement

Shire library, no. 771

Summary

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 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 Edward Luytens, 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 here 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

Table Of Contents

Introduction: the Arts and Crafts Movement -- Design and designers -- Defining the garden: boundaries and materials -- Garden buildings -- Ornaments -- Plants and planting -- Popularising the ideals: books, images, education -- Appendix: Designers and their best works

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