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  • Gardens in the Modern Landscape

    A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition

    by Christopher Tunnard, John Dixon Hunt ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics, Tunnard called for a "new technique" in garden design that emphasized an integration of form and purpose. "The functional garden avoids the extremes ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Gardens in the Modern Landscape

    A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition

    by Christopher Tunnard, John Dixon Hunt ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics, Tunnard called for a "new technique" in garden design that emphasized an integration of form and purpose. "The functional garden avoids the extremes ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • Education Of A Gardener

    by Russell Page ...
    Russell Page was one of the most famous landscape gardeners in Europe. This is his classic text describing his training and the making of his many and celebrated gardens. Written in clear, elegant prose, illustrated with a substantial photographic section, this edition boasts pictures by Marina Schinz of Russell Page's gardens in a more mature form and hitherto unpublished photographs from the ... Read more

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  • Ceramics

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  • The Arts & Crafts Movement

    Design, craftsmanship, and beauty in daily life

    by Oscar Lovell Triggs ...
    “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” This quote alone from William Morris could summarise the ideology of the Arts & Crafts movement, which triggered a veritable reform in the applied arts in England. Founded by John Ruskin, then put into practice by William Morris, the Arts & Crafts movement promoted revolutionary ideas in Victorian England. ... Read more

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  • Garden Design

    by W. Robinson ...
    First published in 1892. "Illustrated, to show, by actual examples from British gardens, that clipping and aligning trees to make them 'harmonise' with architecture is barbarous, needless, and inartistic." ... Read more

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  • On Craftsmanship

    Towards a New Bauhaus

    by Christopher Frayling ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    'Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places, just as it did in the last few recessions.'The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant and timely as it is today. Assailed on all sides by – among many other tendencies - flexible working, short-termism, portfolio careers, quick-fix training and the cult of celebrity, it has recently re-entered public debate with a new sense ... Read more

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  • Furniture Style from Baroque to Rococo - The 18th Century in European Furniture Design

    by Peter Philp ...
    The eighteenth century is rightly spoken of as the 'Golden Age of furniture-making', with some of the world's most impressive and exquisite furniture having been produced during this time. This lovely little book contains a detailed treatise on the eighteenth century furniture styles from Baroque to Rococo. A wonderful book full of detailed photographs and intricate descriptions, this text will be ... Read more

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  • The Ash and The Beech

    The Drama of Woodland Change

    by Richard Mabey ...
    From ash die-back to the Great Storm of 1987 to Dutch elm disease, our much-loved woodlands seem to be under constant threat from a procession of natural challenges. Just when we need trees most, to help combat global warming and to provide places of retreat for us and our wildlife, they seem at greatest peril. But these dangers force us to reconsider the narrative we construct about trees and the ... Read more

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  • Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment

    by Reyner Banham ...
    Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of ... Read more

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  • Writing the Garden

    A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries

    by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers ...
    "This book accompanies the exhibition "Writing the Garden" organized in 2011 by the New York Society Library." ... Read more

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