Shell Houses and Grottoes
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Early grottoes; Grottoes in the eighteenth century: The 'nymphaeum', The shell grotto and house, the simulated limestone cave; Grottoes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; design, construction and decoration; further reading; gazetteer of grottoes to visit.
Product details
| Published | 01 Aug 2001 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 40 |
| ISBN | 9780747805229 |
| Imprint | Shire Publications |
| Dimensions | 210 x 149 mm |
| Series | Shire Library |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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