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Potted History - How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes (Paperback)
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Potted History - How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes (Paperback)
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Loot Price R272
Discovery Miles 2 720
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There is no shortage of books on how to look after houseplants but
no one has shown us how and when and why these plants came to be in
our homes. Catherine Horwood's combination of social history, plant
history and the history of interior design explains why, as
Flanders and Swann sung in the 1950s, 'the garden's full of
furniture / and the house is full of plants.' In this fascinating
book we learned how potted plants are as much subject to fashion as
pieces of furniture. For the Victorians, it was the aspidistra in
the front parlour, the Edwardians loved a palm, and, for today's
millennials, no home is complete without the ubiquitous fiddle-leaf
fig. This book show that there is little new when it comes to
plants in the home. In the mid-18th century, Wedgwood created a
market for special bulb pots and in the 1950s, some of Terence
Conran's earliest designs were for houseplant containers. Across
the ages, the choice of potted plants has been influenced by the
layout of houses, the levels of dirt and pollution and the
equipment to hand. Now, with so much choice, we seem happy to treat
houseplants as disposables. This book gives a better understanding
of the miracles that were once achieved with indoor plant displays,
inspired by Sir Hugh Platt's 1608 vision of a garden 'within
doores'. This new edition has been revised with new material added
to bring the history of the houseplant and its massive explosion in
popularity right up to date.
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