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Escape to Arcadia: Explore Britain’s greatest gardens, an idyllic dream realm.
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The English Landscape Garden

Dreaming of Arcadia

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  • Hardcover

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    5 November 2024

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Summary

Smooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary… the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers.

This sumptuous, beautifully photographed volume celebrates this quintessentially British creation, arguably its greatest artform, taking you on a tour of 20 of the finest surviving gardens, including:…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780711290921
ISBN-10:071129092X
Author:Tim Richardson
Publisher:Quarto Publishing PLC
Imprint:Frances Lincoln
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:5 November 2024
Weight:2.10kg
About The Author

Tim Richardson

Tim Richardson is a writer who specializes in garden and landscape design and history. He has been gardens editor at Country Life, and landscape editor at Wallpaper* magazine, and was founding editor of both the award-winning gardens magazine New Eden and Country Life Gardens. He contributes to the Daily Telegraph, House and Garden, Gardens Illustrated and Country Life. He is the author of Phaidon’s The Garden Book, Vanguard Landscapes Gardens of Martha Schwartz, English Gardens of the 20th Century and Arcadian Friends: the Makers of the English Landscape Garden. He is also the author of The New English Garden (Frances Lincoln).

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