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Tag Archives: West Sussex

De la Warr Pavilion – An Ocean Liner at last Grounded in a Landscape

Posted on March 8, 2014 by admin

For some years, I lived in the delightfully quaint hill town of Rye, with its mix of black-tarred timber warehouses, steep cobbled streets and half-timbered cottages; an island rising out of the Romney Marshes, that mysterious landscape of big skies, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Chermayeff, Mendelsohn, Modern Movement, Sussex, West Sussex

Petworth – A Masterclass in Understatement

Posted on February 17, 2014 by admin
Petworth’s Lake

As a small boy, I was a caddy to my father, a keen golfer who was recovering from heart problems. Most of the time, he played at Belton Park, in Lincolnshire; a landscape laid out by Emes, a successor to … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Capability Brown, London, Lord Egremont, National Trust, Sussex, West Sussex

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