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... domestic architecture and took a personal and practical part in the improvement of their houses and parks ; when cognoscenti exchanged letters , couched in graceful classical terms , discussing such mutually absorbing topics as the ...
... domestic architecture and took a personal and practical part in the improvement of their houses and parks ; when cognoscenti exchanged letters , couched in graceful classical terms , discussing such mutually absorbing topics as the ...
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... architectural , but the development of garden design cannot be divorced from the changes in domestic architecture . The house leads the way , the garden follows . The change brought about in the garden by the royal effort can be clearly ...
... architectural , but the development of garden design cannot be divorced from the changes in domestic architecture . The house leads the way , the garden follows . The change brought about in the garden by the royal effort can be clearly ...
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... domestic architecture cannot be said ever to have completely died out in England , at the most spending a few dormant years around 1700 , so the romantic type of garden carried on a faint and somewhat discredited existence throughout ...
... domestic architecture cannot be said ever to have completely died out in England , at the most spending a few dormant years around 1700 , so the romantic type of garden carried on a faint and somewhat discredited existence throughout ...
Contents
THE SEARCH FOR SUSTENANCE | 9 |
THE AGE OF SYMMETRY | 31 |
THE RETURN TO NATURE | 69 |
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