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Painswick Rococo Garden – A Productive Whimsical Pleasure Garden

Posted on March 15, 2014 by admin
The Exedra

Light hearted and flamboyant or frivolous and vulgar? Rococo seemed a fitting description for many of the smaller English gardens of the middle part of the 18th century now long since gone.  A commentator at the time sneered: ‘You are … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Gloucestershire, Rococo Gardens

Painshill – ‘Whimsical Theatricality’

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Sam Urqhart
Painshill

We English are so polite. Like most of my compatriots, if I visit a garden that I don’t like, I don’t write about it; but all that is about to change, no more Mr Nice Guy. I have resolved to … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, Italy | Tagged Charles Hamilton, London, Rococo Gardens, Surrey

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