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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2014
      22 August 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139814584
      9781108061407
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139814584
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 284 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, Art: General Interest, Art, History, Architecture
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Art: General Interest, Art, History, Architecture
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
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    First published in 1892, this work by the architect Reginald Theodore Blomfield (1856–1942), illustrated by Francis Inigo Thomas (1865–1950), uses historical evidence to vindicate a classical approach to garden design, in which a house and its surroundings are kept in harmony. It is a response to the work of the gardener and journalist William Robinson (1838–1935), who had written vehemently in favour of romantic, naturalistic gardens. Closely linked to the burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement as secretary to the Art-Workers' Guild under William Morris' presidency, Blomfield had developed a theory of garden design which held that it should be a reflection of architectural order: honest, vernacular simplicity as opposed to the 'wild garden'. Illustrative of the contemporary debate between architects and plantsmen, this instructive text, reissued in its second edition of 1892, captures a moment in this developing relationship in the years before Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll gave it new harmony.

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