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The Garden of Bagatelle, Paris

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Montacute Pavilion

Visit to Bagatelle, May 2011 Bagatelle was a disappointment. Partly it was the effort getting there. My guidebook rather unhelpfully listed various metro stops and left it at that, and it was off the edge of their map. I made … Continue reading →

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A Curious Impost Block at Iford Manor

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Montacute Pavilion

At Harold Peto’s Iford Manor by there is a neo-Romanesque pavilion called the Casita on the upper terrace. Its wonderfully weathered architrave is supported on double stone columns with fused capitals (apparently pink Verona marble dating from c. 1200) with … Continue reading →

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The Impossibility of Australian Architectural Connoisseurship

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Montacute Pavilion

‘An Australian, however well-informed, simply cannot distinguish between a piece of Trust House timbering and a genuine Tudor building; an Englishman however uncultured knows at once …’. [Evelyn Waugh to John Betjeman, cited in A.N. Wilson’s Biography of Betjeman, 2007, … Continue reading →

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On Baroque Gardens

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Montacute Pavilion

I picked up Tim Richardson’s The Arcadian Friends. Inventing the English Landscape Garden at the local remainder bookshop. Although the subject is the landscape garden it has an unusually sensitive account of the Baroque garden: ‘there is a tendency today … Continue reading →

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