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Rutherford, Sarah.
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Arts and crafts gardens -- England.
Gardens, English.
Gardens -- England -- Design.
Landscape architecture -- Great Britain.
Arts and crafts movement -- England.
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Rutherford, Sarah.
Arts and crafts gardens -- England.
Gardens, English.
Gardens -- England -- Design.
Landscape architecture -- Great Britain.
Arts and crafts movement -- England.
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The
arts
and
crafts
garden / Sarah Rutherford.
by
Rutherford, Sarah.
Shire Publications, 2013.
Call #:
712.60942 R975a
Subjects
Arts
and
crafts
gardens
--
England
.
Gardens, English.
Gardens
--
England
--
Design.
Landscape architecture
--
Great Britain.
Arts
and
crafts
movement
--
England
.
Series
Shire library no. 771.
ISBN:
9780747812982 (pbk.)
0747812985 (pbk.)
Description:
80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-72) and index.
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.
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"--Page four of cover.
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