Main entry:

Coats, Peter.

Title & Author:

Great gardens of the Western World / by Peter Coats with an introduction by Harold Nicolson.

Publication:

New York, Putnam [1963]

Description:

288 pages illustrations (some color), portraits, plans 33 cm

Notes:
Alhambra, Granada: Courtyards form the oldest gardens in the world -- La Gamberaia, near Florence: An Italian garden in the classic manner -- Kasteel Twickel, Holland: Perterres round a moated Dutch castle -- Earlshall, Scotland: A topiary garden in the kingdom of Fife -- Aranjuez, near Madrid: The gardens of the kings of Spain -- Villandry, Indre-et-Loire: A spectacular recreation of a Renaissance garden -- Levens Hall, Westmorland: The best preserved topiary garden in Britain -- The Vatican garden, Rome: The little known garden behind St Peter's -- Bomarzo, near Viterbo: A giant-haunted grove in the Cimini Hills -- Vaux-le-Vicomte, Seine-et-Marne: The first masterpiece of Andre le Notre -- Williamsburg, Virginia: A masterly reconstruction of the eighteenth century -- Versailles, France: The greatest garden in the world -- Peterhof, Leningrad: Peter the Great's Versailles by the sea -- Fronteira, near Lisbon: A fantasy in clipped box and blue tiles -- Villa Garzoni, Collodi, Tuscany: A Baroque garden with echoes of the Renaissance -- Schwetzingen, Mannheim: A German garden in the grand manner -- Chatsworth, Derbyshire: The garden of England's finest country house -- Stourhead, Wiltshire: The first landscape garden in Europe -- Veitshochheim, near Wurzburg: The most enchanting garden statuary in Europe --- Courances, Seine-et-Oise: Where water dominates the garden -- The Nymphenburg, Munich: Pavilions and fountains of the Bavarian Court -- Bagatelle, near Paris: The fairest rose-garden in France -- Marlia, near Lucca: Where concerts were given in an open-air theatre -- Charleston, South Carolina: Middleton Place, Magnolia Gardens, Cypress Gardens: Three gardens of the southern states -- Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly: Exotic plants off the tip of England -- Powerscourt, County Wicklow: An Irish garden in the great tradition -- Bodnant, North Wales: A splendid combination of terraces and shrubs -- Old Westbury, Long Island: Echoes of the Edwardian era outside New York -- The Huntington Botanical Gardens, California: Rare plants around a famous art collection -- Hidcote Manor, Gloucestershire: An American's garden in the Cotswolds -- Winterthur, Delaware: Natural gardens on a princely scale -- Schloss Mainau, Lake Constance: The island-garden of a Swedish prince -- Sissinghurst Castle, Kent: A flower-garden in the remains of a Tudor castle -- Villa Taranto, Lake Maggiore: A Scotsman's magnificent collection of rare shrubs -- Keukenhof, Holland: A natural garden in the land of bulbs -- Savill Gardens, Windsor: The gardens in the royal park.

Summary:

Great Gardens of the Western World is a sumptuous pictorial treasury of the finest gardens of Europe and America. Selected by Peter Coats, a well-known authority on gardening and landscape architecture, these thirty-eight most beautiful gardens are described and pictured in all their infinite variety and loveliness. Mr. Coats has arranged them in an order roughly corresponding to the dates when they were designed, showing the changing fashions from the sixteenth century to the present day and revealing the effect of the varying climates upon the appearance of the gardens themselves. Not only do we find in this magnificent book superb examples of the great formal gardens of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France, Italy, Spain, Germany and Russia, but also several of the simpler gardens in England and Holland, where flowers and hedges tend to predominate over the more elaborate vistas of water and statuary. In the United States, gardens have taken the form of natural landscaping as well as that found in the English style of garden, and to many readers these American gardens -- Cypress, Huntingdon, Magnolia, Middleton, Old Westbury, Winterthur and those of Colonial Williamsburg -- will be among the most richly rewarding in the book. The photographs--40 plates in full colour and 350 in monochrome--depict these gardens in all their breathtaking splendour. In addition, there are many documentary drawings and engravings showing how these gardens appeared in previous centuries. These spectacular illustrations combined with the descriptive text, offer the discerning reader an incomparable treasury of the art of garden design. -- Jacket.

Subject:

Gardens.
Gardens History.
Jardins Histoire.
Jardins.
gardens (open spaces)
ontwerp
design
tuinen
gardens
wereld
world
Landscape Architecture (General)
Garden History
Landschapsarchitectuur (algemeen)
Tuinhistorie

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Nicolson, Harold, 1886-1968, writer of introduction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 122993
Call No.: 2293; ID:85-B21004
Status: Available