Publication date: 2008-05-12
Dewey code: 721.0448
RRP: £29.95
Price: £23.39
Review Touch Wood: The Rediscovery of a Building Material / Verlagshaus Braun:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1987-06
Dewey code: 733.3
RRP: £10.95
Price: £5.69
Review Greek Sculpture: Classical Period (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1985-11-18
Dewey code: 709.04
RRP: £7.95
Price: £2.71
Review Surrealist Art (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publication date: 2006-10-31
Dewey code: 720.87
RRP: £42.50
Price: £35.49
Review The Access Manual: Auditing and Managing Inclusive Built Environments / Blackwell Publishing:
Authors
- Sara Maitland
- Peter Matthews
Dewey code: 712.6
RRP: £20.00
Price: £6.53
Review Gardens of Illusion: Places of Wit and Enchantment / Cassell Illustrated:Writer Sarah Maitland and garden designer Peter Matthews have joined forces to produce what is in some ways a triumph of perversity. Flouting the widely held (and often unquestioned) assumption that a garden is above all a place of peace, contemplation and healing, they explore in Gardens of Illusion an alternative tradition at least as old and possibly older than that of the garden as sanctuary. This is the garden as an embodiment of the play of the mind: wit, intellectual endeavour, humour and magic. Gardens of Illusion is about the flaunting of artifice, the kind of gardening done in the spaces between the twin meanings of the key words "wit" and "reflection". In the course of their meditations, Maitland and Matthews compile-and illustrate-a remarkable anthology of gardens of all sizes and styles, classical, gothic, outré (what fun they must have had visiting them!). These range from the dense allusiveness of Ian Hamilton Finlay's "written" garden in Scotland to Derek Jarman's haunting shingle plot at Dungeness, but include vast landscape enterprises as well as tiny urban yards. What unites them all is a sense of surprise and adventure. A formidable intellectual ancestry invokes Bacon and the Renaissance gardens at the Villa d'Este and Bomarzo. The chapter headings give a flavour of the serious playfulness of the endeavour: The Wit Tradition, Carving the Landscape, Reflecting on Reflections, Sacred Groves and Magic Forests, and Passions of the Mind. A beautiful, surreal photograph perhaps sums it up: in a country garden, an unexpected wrought-iron Victorian spiral staircase ascends into the trees, leading to who knows what magical possibilities. [+]Gardens of Illusion provokes in all the right ways. -Robin Davidson.
Authors
- Stefan Muthesius
- Roger Dixon
Publication date: 1978-06-19
Dewey code: 720.941
RRP: £8.95
Price: £3.88
Review Victorian Architecture (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-10
Dewey code: 759.2
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.49
Review Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict / Prestel:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-01-01
Dewey code: 712.6094227
RRP: £25.00
Price: £19.23
Review Gertrude Jekyll's Lost Garden: The Restoration of an Edwardian Masterpiece / Garden Art Press:
Authors
- Mario Soares
- Claire Baidoin
- Caroline Champenois
- Anne de Stoop
- Jerome Darblay
Dewey code: 729
RRP: £30.00
Price: £18.40
Review Living in Portugal (Living In... Series) / Flammarion:
Publication date: 2007-11-16
Dewey code: 693.91
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.01
Review How to Build an Igloo And Other Snow Shelters / W.W. Norton & Co:
Edition: Updated, Expanded Ed
Publication date: 2007-09-27
Dewey code: 728.37
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.73
Review The New Ultimate Book of Home Plans / Creative Homeowner Press,U.S.:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1972-03-31
Price: £17.95
Review Small Georgian Houses and Their Details, 1750-1820 / Architectural Press:
Publication date: 2000-04
Dewey code: 709.04
RRP: £7.95
Price: £3.39
Review Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-08-01
Dewey code: 759.4
RRP: £22.95
Price: £14.92
Review Sisley / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2003-06-06
Dewey code: 721
RRP: £40.99
Price: £33.14
Review Conservation of Historic Buildings / Architectural Press:
Creator: Mark B. Williams
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1992-04
Dewey code: 728
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.49
Review A Japanese Touch for Your Home / Kodansha International Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-01-01
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.07
Review Francis Bacon (British Artists series) (British Artists) / Tate Publishing:
Publication date: 1999-01-01
Dewey code: 700
RRP: £12.95
Price: £8.82
Review Paolozzi / National Galleries of Scotland:
Publication date: 2007-03-23
Dewey code: 720
RRP: £29.95
Price: £19.76
Review Perth and Kinross: The Buildings of Scotland / Yale University Press:
Creator: Dan Cruickshank
Edition: 20
Publication date: 1996-09-21
Dewey code: 720.9
RRP: £110.00
Price: £88.39
Review Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture / Architectural Press:
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