Arts and Crafts Gardens

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Harry N. Abrams, Mar 1, 2005 - Gardening - 96 pages
"Arts and Crafts gardens were unashamedly romantic, but also deceptively progressive. This book explores the politics behind the planting: the underlying issues of suffrage, spirituality and national identity behind some of the movement's finest gardens. It examines the architectural features and planting trends that defined the style in Britain, America, Europe and Scandinavia and considers the legacy of Arts and Crafts gardening as a profound and sensual philosophy, still relevant to gardeners today."--BOOK JACKET.

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ORIGINS OF MODERN GARDENING
6
BACK TO NATURE
20
DEFINING THE STYLE
32
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Wendy Hitchmough is an art historian specialising in the architecture and design of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is Curator at Charleston, the Bloomsbury artists' home in Sussex. She is the author of seven books including C F A Voysey and The Arts and Crafts Home.

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