Shell houses and grottoes
Auteur :
Jackson, Hazelle
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN :
9780747805229
Date de publication :
1 août 2001
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,9 x 0,6 cm
Poids :
120 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The artificial grotto has a long and intriguing history in architecture and garden design. This book describes the origins of the grotto in Renaissance Italy, its heyday in eighteenth-century England, its decline in the nineteenth century and its return to favour in the twentieth century.