Tag Archives: Garden Sculpture

Pavilions, Fabriques, and the Reverential Copy

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Montacute Pavilion

[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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Schloss Trautmannsdorf Meditations I: the Problematic of Gardens for Lovers

Posted on June 23, 2018 by Montacute Pavilion

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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On Garden Sculpture: Giant Milk Crates

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Montacute Pavilion

Gardens are the acid test of sculptural genres. One popular genre is the overscaled object, such as the giant milk crate currently proposed as a public sculpture in Sydney. The Sydney Morning Herald tracked down the designer of the original … Continue reading →

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