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Capability Brown - Designing the English Landscape (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,330
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Capability Brown - Designing the English Landscape (Hardcover): John Phibbs

Capability Brown - Designing the English Landscape (Hardcover)

John Phibbs; Photographs by Joe Cornish

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Widely acknowledged as the most influential land- scape designer of his age, Lancelot Capability Brown was to England what Frederick Law Olmsted was to America responsible for shaping the very ideal of the nation s parkland. Brown s ambition was to bring out of a landscape the best of its potential rather than impose his own ideas upon it. His designs are organic, weaving gestures of colour and perspective into the features that the country already afforded. So natural are his designs, and so perfectly do they complement the houses within them, that for many a Capability Brown landscape is the epitome of the English estate. His gardens and park- lands as much as the houses themselves would become icons of British country life. Published to coincide with the tercentenary of his birth, this remarkable book illuminates fifteen of Brown s most celebrated landscapes. To love the great English estates is to love the settings with which Brown surrounded them from idyllic parklands at Milton and Broadlands to structured landscapes around iconic houses at Blenheim, Burghley, Wake- field, and Chatsworth. With photography commissioned for the book, and including rarely seen archival drawings that shed light on Brown s process, this book serves as a guide to Britain s most beloved landscapes and an exploration of the masterful mind behind their creation.

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Imprint: Rizzoli International Publications
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2016
Authors: John Phibbs
Photographers: Joe Cornish
Dimensions: 314 x 239 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-4883-6
Categories: Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Garden design & planning
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > General
Books > Gardening > Garden design & planning
Books > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
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LSN: 0-8478-4883-3
Barcode: 9780847848836

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