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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Tag Archives: creative gardens
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 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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Highgrove’s Berninian Fabrique
A new book on Highgrove arrived today, by Bunny Guinness. I was interested to see if one feature was illustrated there—the Oak Pavilion—as it does not appear in any other book and they don’t let you take photos. Indeed, it … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arundel Castle, Baroque Gardens, creative gardens, Fabriques, Highgrove, Poundbury, suburban design
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Tim Richardson’s The New English Garden and the Personal Intellectual Garden
I have just acquired Tim Richardson’s The New English Garden. One of his bugbears is that the art world won’t take gardens seriously as art, a theme he develops in the introduction. I was reminded of my own Gardens and … Continue reading →