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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