The story of Britain’s greatest, and most under-appreciated art form — the 18th century landscape garden, the only art form to have originated wholly in Britain. It’s a wonderfully engaging account of the eccentrics who created these gardens, and of a period bursting with creativity.
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Tim Richardson has been writing about the English landscape garden for over 14 years. As gardens editor of Country Life from 1995-99 and in many articles since he has covered Painshill, Hestercombe, Goldney Hall, Wrest Park, Studley Royal and Housham, inter alia. He is the author/editor of The Garden Book (Phaidon), as well as author of English Gardens in the Twentieth Century (Aurum) and The Vanguard Landcapes and Gardens of Martha Schwartz (Thames and Hudson). He is also the world's foremost confectionery historian and author of Sweets: A History of Temptation. He lives in north London.
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