The English Formal Garden: Five Centuries of Design book by Gunter Mader, Laila Neubert-Mader. Este artículo no está disponible.The English Formal Garden: Five Centuries of Design book by Gunter Mader, Laila Neubert-Mader

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Spine slightly faded. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The landscape garden is perhaps best known among English garden styles, but even before its ascent, garden design in Britain was already highly developed - a deft blend of native traditions reaching back into the Middle Ages, with Italian, Dutch and French influences. Towards the end of the 19th century, when the landscape garden style had run its course, a new movement made another significant contribution to the history of garden design. It was led by such notable practitioners as the architect Edwin Lutyens and the celebrated Gertrude Jekyll, and the garden style which ensued looked back to the forms of the 17th century, refining and developing them into what can be described as the English Formal Garden, now recognized as one of the most notable garden styles of the 20th century. This beautifully illustrated book offers an authoritative account of the development, features, leading originators and sources of the English formal garden style. It begins with a short garden history from pre-Ro.…