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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Jemima Grey’s Chinoiserie Fabrique at Wrest Park, Part 2. Form and Style
The Status of the Current Version The relationship between the Chinese fabrique she built and Wrest Park and the 20th century structures is not completely clear to me. Apparently the stone base is original,[1] but Conner writes that ‘the pavilion … Continue reading →
Jemima Grey’s Chinoiserie Fabrique at Wrest Park, Part 1. History
Wrest Park has an interesting Chinoiserie fabrique (Fig. 1) which is of interest because it has recently been restored (not for the first time) which allows us to come to grips with the structure. I examined it in June 2013 … Continue reading →
Chinoiserie Fabriques Part 2: William Kent
William Kent, Design for Chinoiserie garden temple, showing plan and detailed elevation with bamboo porch, c. 1730–1735. Pen and brown ink and brown wash on paper. London, Victoria and Albert Museum, E.384-1986. (Fig. 1) English Chinoiserie pavilions explored a … Continue reading →
The Gateway at Montacute Pavilion and the Palazzo del Te
Although the gateway arch was initially intended to have been based on Serlio’s Libro Estraordinario, as it has unfolded it has become the Mannerist Gateway. The inside façade is based on Michelangelo’s Porta Pia, the outside one on Giulio Romano’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged Giulio Romano, Mantua, Palazzo del Te, triglyph
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Pavilions, Fabriques, and the Reverential Copy
[This paper discusses a category of building that is related to, and sometimes overlaps with, the pavilion: the fabrique. The fabrique is not to be confused with the folly, although both are found in parks and gardens and the terms … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arts and Crafts, Australian Gardens, Bagatelle, Baroque Gardens, Bramante; pavilion, chateau de Groussay; Woerlitz, creative gardens, Daylesford, English Gardens, fabrique, Fabriques, folly, Garden History, Garden Sculpture, Wombat Hill Botanical Gardens
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Schloss Trautsmannsdorf Meditations 2: Jean-François de Bastide’s La Petite Maison and Architectural Seduction
Following my exploration of the somewhat unsatisfactory Garden for Lovers at Schloss Trautsmannsdorf (https://villacastagnadaylesford.wordpress.com/2018/06/23/schloss-trautmannsdorf-and-the-problematic-of-gardens-for-lovers) it may be worth turning to eighteenth-century France for a very different approach to the erotic garden. The key text is Jean-François de Bastide’s La Petite … Continue reading →
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Tagged Baroque Gardens, Bastide, Fabriques, Pavillon de la Boissière, rococo gardens, seduction
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Schloss Trautmannsdorf Meditations I: the Problematic of Gardens for Lovers
The garden at Schloss Trautmannsdorf is a kind of Eden Project, a new garden created from 1995 and opened in 2001 (Fig. 1). The castle, which has had a sorry history, contains the provincial tourism museum, or Touriseum, which is … Continue reading →
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Tagged Baroque Gardens, Chaumont, creative gardens, Fabriques, Garden History, Garden Sculpture, Trautsmandorff
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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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