Follies and Pleasure Pavilions
Author : Sally Sample Aall
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Pleasure Pavilions and Follies in the Gardens of the Ancien Régime
Author : Bernd H. Dams
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Book Description
Many of these buildings have been destroyed or severely altered and the only records that survive are the drawings, engravings, architectural plans, and, more rarely, paintings of the period.
The Follies of a Day; a Comedy, in Three Acts. [Paginated with Garrick (David) Miss in Her Teens.]
Author : Thomas Holcroft
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 1824
Category :
ISBN :
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The Last of Uptake, Or, The Estranged Sisters
Author : Simon Harcourt-Smith
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 1942
Category :
ISBN :
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The Story of Follies
Author : Celia Fisher
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1789146364
Book Description
A beautifully illustrated history of these quirky ornamental buildings in gardens across the globe. Are they frivolous or practical? Follies are buildings constructed primarily for decoration, but they suggest another purpose through their appearance. In this visually stunning book, Celia Fisher describes follies in their historical and architectural context, looks at their social and political significance, and highlights their relevance today. She explores follies built in protest, follies in Oriental and Gothic styles, animal-related follies, waterside follies and grottoes, and, finally, follies in glass and steel. Featuring many fine illustrations, from historical paintings to contemporary photographs and prints, and taking in follies from Great Britain to Ireland, throughout Europe, and beyond, The Story of Follies is an amusing and informative guide to fanciful, charming buildings.
Chinoiseries
Author : Bernd H. Dams
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Book Description
This title presents 50 of Bernd Dams and Andrew Zega's expert watercolour illustrations, focusing on Chinoiseries pavilions. 36 of the works delve into the past, reconstructing exceptional historical structures from the 17th to the 19th century, with a predominately French style.
Follies in America
Author : Kerry Dean Carso
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1501755951
Book Description
Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.
Landscape of Dreams
Author : Isabel Bannerman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 9781910258606
Book Description
Isabel and Julian Bannerman have been described as "mavericks in the grand manner, touched by genius" (Min Hogg, World of Interiors) and "the Bonnie and Clyde of garden design" (Ruth Guilding, The Bible of British Taste). Their approach to design, while rooted in history and the classical tradition, is fresh, eclectic and surprising. They designed the British 9/11 Memorial Garden in New York and have also designed gardens for the Prince of Wales at Highgrove and the Castle of Mey, Lord Rothschild at Waddesdon Manor, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk at Arundel Castle in Sussex and John Paul Getty II at Wormsley in Buckinghamshire. The garden they made for themselves at Hanham Court near Bath was acclaimed by Gardens Illustrated as the top garden of 2009, ahead of Sissinghurst. When they moved from Hanham it was to the fairytale castle of Trematon overlooking Plymouth Sound, where they have created yet another magical garden. Landscape of Dreams celebrates the imaginative and practical process of designing, making and planting all of these gardens, and many more.
Beach Houses
Author : Alastair Gordon
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616892371
Book Description
Andrew Geller was known as the architect of happiness and it's easy to see why. Sporting names like The Box Kite, The Bra, and The Reclining Picasso, his whimsical vacation homes of the 1950s and 1960s dotted the coasts of Long Island, Martha's Vineyard, and the Jersey Shore. Made mostly of wood, they combined a modern interest in light, breeze, and functional living with playful form-making. In contrast to the today's Hamptons megamansions, Geller's inexpensive homes were modest in scale and reflected the ideas of summer leisure of a generation more concerned with fun on the beach than ostentatious display. Now available in paperback, Beach Houses features more than fifty of these spirited houses in rarely seen vintage photographs and drawings.
Victoria's Lost Pavilion
Author : Paul Fyfe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349951951
Book Description
This book explores the significance of the now-lost pavilion built in the Buckingham Palace Gardens in the time of Queen Victoria for understanding experiments in British art and architecture at the outset of the Victorian era. It introduces the curious history of the garden pavilion, its experimental contents, the controversies of its critical reception, and how it has been digitally remediated. The chapters discuss how the pavilion, decorated with frescos and encaustics by some of the most prominent painters of the mid-nineteenth century, became the center of a national conversation about an identity for British art, the capacity of its artists, and the quality of Royal and public taste. Beyond an examination of the pavilion's history, this book also introduces a digital model which restores the pavilion to virtual life, underscoring the importance of the pavilion for Victorian aesthetics and culture.
