The Idea of Villa Castagna
A garden is both a real place, and a cloud of possibilities. What you will find here will be both something real, and something that may or may not become real. For this reason you will find no map: Instead you will meet fragments, part real, part possible.
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Monthly Archives: November 2017
The Monkey Puzzle Parterre at Biddulph Grange
At the National Trust’s Biddulph Grange garden in England they have a little terraced gardens in the section called ‘Italy’ which has four small monkey puzzle trees in a little box-edged parterre centred on a stone vase (Figs 1–3). This … Continue reading →
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Tagged Australian Gardens, Bolzano, Garden History, monkey puzzle trees, Tynesfield, Wombat Hill Botanical Gardens
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Portmeirion 2. Portmeirion and the Picturesque
The most useful way of approaching Portmeirion is through the concept of the picturesque. Williams-Ellis (or, as everyone calls him, Clough) explains how he liked sailing around the Mediterranean and enjoyed the view of coastal towns from the sea. He … Continue reading →
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Tagged Art Deco architecture, Arts and Crafts, Baroque Gardens, Clough Williams-Ellis, Elizabethan architecture, Fabriques, Garden History, Portmeirion
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Portmeirion 1. Introduction
People don’t always get Portmeirion (Fig. 1). For example, it has been argued that it is a proto-Post-Modernist work, created by an architect trying to subvert the modernist norm long before Venturi and Scott-Brown came on the scene. But this … Continue reading →
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Tagged Art Deco architecture, Arts and Crafts, Baroque Gardens, Clough Williams-Ellis, Elizabethan architecture, Fabriques, Garden History, Portmeirion
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Grosssedlitz and the Grassy Pool
Grosssedlitz (yes, it has three s’s) is an intriguing unfinished baroque garden outside Dresden. It was begun in 1719 by August Christoph Count von Wackerbarth before being acquired by Augustus the Strong, who lost interest in it apart from having … Continue reading →
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Tagged Baroque Gardens, Fountains, Garden History, Grosssedlitz
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