The arts and crafts garden
By: Sarah Rutherford
Series: Shire Library -- no. 771; Shire library -- no. 771.
Publisher: Shire Publications
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780747812982
Subjects: Arts and crafts movement; Landscape architecture; Arts and crafts gardens
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-72) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Arts and Crafts Movement; title: Design and designers; title: Defining the garden: boundaries and materials; title: Garden buildings; title: Ornaments; title: Plants and planting; title: Popularising the ideals: books, images, education; title: Appendix: Designers and their best works.