Shell Houses and Grottoes
Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd
Published: August 1, 2001
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780747805229
Subjects: Gardening; Landscape art & architecture; Architecture
Description: "The artificial grotto has a long and intriguing history in architecture and garden design. This book describes the origins of the grotto in Renaissance Italy, its heyday in eighteenth-century England, its decline in the nineteenth century and its return to favour in the twentieth century"--Publlisher's website.
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