English Garden Eccentrics, Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountain, and Menageries
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a series of eccentric English garden-makers who, between the early seventeenth and the early twentieth centuries, created intensely personal and idiosyncratic gardens. These fascinating characters include the 5th Duke of Portland and his London residence, Harcourt House.
The book engagingly reveals the gardens as expressions of the singular character of their makers, and therefore functioning, in effect, as a form of autobiography.
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan is a renowned landscape architect with an international practice based in London. He is a gardens adviser to the Historic Royal Palaces, lecturer at New York University (London), founding member and president of the London Gardens Trust, and editor of The London Gardener.
- Hardback
- 392 pages
Our exhibition Tunnel Vision currently on show at The Harley Gallery, reveals the life and work of the famously private 5th Duke of Portland who features in this book. Exhibits include architectural models for some of his great building projects, his iconic double-letterbox bedroom door, and his only true likeness in the form of his death mask.
Learn more about the 5th Duke's political allegiances in our article by Dr Fiona Clapperton and his bachelor lifestyle in the article by Dr Lauren Batt.
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