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Автор: Christopher Tunnard
Издательство: Ingram
Серия: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
Жанр произведения: Техническая литература
Год издания: 0
isbn: 9780812290042
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These gestures, with Moore’s Recumbent Figure, Nash’s “dream” through the viewing frame, the concrete materials, unusual chairs, and a patio where a path stretches toward the view through the screen, all allow a convincingly modern garden to cohabit with the box-like building behind.

      For the house Land’s End, in Gaulby, Leicester (designed by Raymond McGrath), Tunnard, as well as Frank Clark, drew and redrew plans during the late 1930s, though the final authorship of the landscape is either debated or (inevitably) the result of the melding of various contributions. What seem to be in Tunnard’s hand is again the open and irregular lawn surrounded by a series of gardens, some of which were set in rectangles in the manner of Guevrekian’s Villa Noialles; perimeter walks that edged the site (in both format and the use of color to lengthen perspectives, those walks were a distinct eighteenth-century reference); a shelter or pavilion in the Japanese style overlooking a pond; and the sight of adjacent pinewoods drawn into the more manicured garden.

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      The original dust jacket of the 1938 edition. Courtesy of Jan Woudstra.