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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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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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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Notes on Rodmarton Manor: The Circle
Kelmscott Manor is a Museum that feels like a private house, but Rodmarton Manor, curiously enough, is a private house that feels like a museum. The interiors feel oddly unlived in, even though the sofas (a sure sign of inhabited … Continue reading →
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