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Stourhead - Henry Hoare's Paradise Revisited (Hardcover)
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Stourhead - Henry Hoare's Paradise Revisited (Hardcover)
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A beautifully illustrated history of the world famous landscape
garden at Stourhead, created by generations of the Hoare banking
dynasty. Cross the south lawn at Stourhead and descend through the
ancient and rare trees. Soon you will see a great lake appear,
decorated with classical temples and arched bridge that lunges to
the other side of the water. Continue on and you will find a
mystical, jagged grotto; a gothic hideaway; gods, muses and saints.
This is how Henry Hoare - known as Henry the Magnificent - would
have approached the garden he designed with Henry Flitcroft. Did he
imagine himself as a journeying Aeneas, or was he recreating a
Claud Lorrain landscape? This is the first history - in colour - of
a unique landscape created by generations of the Hoare banking
family. It follows its evolution, describing how flights of folly,
individual flair and tastes, combined with careful stewardship,
have formed a national treasure and one of the finest example of
the English landscape garden. The book includes a foreword by James
Stourton and newly commissioned photography by renowned garden
photographer Marianne Majerus.
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