Garden Ornament: Five Hundred Years of History and Practice
By George Plumptre.
Description
The tremendous upsurge of interest in garden history and design in recent years has prompted a renewed fascination with the art and artifacts of garden ornament. Those decorative objects--buildings, statues, urns, balustrades, trellises, fountains, ironwork, seats--lend character and definition to garden layout and play an important part in contemporary horticultural design. One of the most significant additions to the literature of horticulture in recent times, this volume surveys ornament in garden design of the past and analyzes the use of different types of ornament in gardens old and n...
ISBN(s)
0500280797, 9780500280799
