Capability Brown : designing the English landscape Lancelot Capability Browns designs are organic weaving gestures of colour and perspective into the features that the country already afforded. So natural are his designs and so perfectly do they complement the houses within them that for many a Capability Brown landscape is the epitome of the English estate. His gardens and parklands as much as the houses themselves would become icons of British country life. Published to coincide with the tercentenary of his birth this book illuminates fifteen of Browns most celebrated landscapes. Including rarely seen archival drawings that shed light on Browns process this book serves as a guide to Britains most beloved landscapes and an exploration of the masterful mind behind their creation