{"product_id":"english-landscape-garden-dreaming-of-arcadia","title":"The English Landscape Garden","description":"\u003cb\u003eSmooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary ... the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This \u003cb\u003esumptuous, beautifully photographed\u003c\/b\u003e volume celebrates this quintessentially British creation, arguably its greatest artform, taking you on a tour of 20 of the finest surviving gardens, including: \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eStudley Royal (Yorkshire), a \u003cb\u003edreamy valley garden\u003c\/b\u003e which culminates with a view down and across the ruins of a Cistercian abbey\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eStowe (Buckinghamshire), the great politically motivated garden of its day, boasting the ensemble masterpiece that is William Kent's Elysian Fields\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChiswick House (London), \u003cb\u003eLord Burlington's experiment in neoclassical architecture\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePetworth (Sussex) - of 'Capability' Brown, who eschewed the symbolism of earlier generations but created instead his own powerful vision of pastoral Arcadia\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHawkstone Park (Shropshire), designed to elicit a thrill of fear in visitors as they \u003cb\u003etraverse rocky precipices and encounter live hermits\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e Including much new research and specially commissioned photographs, this is a book to dive into and be transported to an idyllic dream realm.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"English Landscape Garden Dreaming of Arcadia","offer_id":46555590951109,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-7112-9092-1.jpg?v=1784323601","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/english-landscape-garden-dreaming-of-arcadia","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}