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Solomon de Caus in England

Posted on 21/09/2019 by The Gardens Trust

Roy Strong in The Renaissance Garden asserts, quite rightly, that early writers on garden history seem to have overlooked the huge part played in garden design in the late 15th to early 17thc by engineers. The Renaissance humanist mind saw no … Continue reading →

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Making Mountains and Music in Elysium…

Posted on 13/10/2018 by The Gardens Trust

As I hope I showed in a recent post John Evelyn the 17thc diarist and garden writer spent much of his life designing the perfect garden: Elysium Britannicum. It was to be an Eden encompassing a complete miniaturized version of … Continue reading →

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The Darlys: Chinoiserie and big hair

Posted on 27/01/2018 by The Gardens Trust

Mary and Matthias Darly were designers, engravers and printsellers in late 18thc London, who were particularly well-known for their caricatures and satires on contemporary politics and fashion. Matthias [sometimes refererred to as Matthew] illustrated books of designs for ‘ornament’, furniture … Continue reading →