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Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement: Reality and Imagination
Contemporary Review, May, 2005
Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement: Reality and Imagination. Judith B. Tankard. Harry N. Abrams. [pounds sterling]29.95. 216 pages. ISBN 0-8109-4965-2. The Arts and Crafts movement is remembered for its houses, cottages, furniture, fabrics and wall-coverings but not as frequently for its gardens.
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In this survey Miss Tankard sets out to remedy this by reminding us of the gardens created to surround houses increasingly based on 'the local vernacular'. She quotes the German architectural historian, Hermann Muthesius who described the movement's goal as 'garden, house, and interior--a unity'. The new gardens looked to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for inspiration. They were 'intimate in scale, with soothing colours and textures' and often had buildings such as pergolas constructed in the same material as the house. Through a copious use of illustrations, for which Abrams is famous, the author looks at the background and then examines various aspects such as the influence of the Cotswolds, the work of William Morris, William Robinson, Gertrude Jekyll and Lutyens and the movement's influence abroad. The Arts and Crafts movement gave England not only some beautiful houses but also some beautiful gardens whose genius has been captured in this stimulating and pleasing book. (P.P.F.)
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