Furnishing the old-fashioned garden

three centuries of American summerhouses, dovecotes, pergolas, privies, fences & birdhouses

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Furnishing the old-fashioned garden

three centuries of American summerhouses, dovecotes, pergolas, privies, fences & birdhouses

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May Brawley Hill returns to traditional American gardens to present the inventive outdoor structures that enlivened three centuries of garden making across the country.

Furnishing the Old-Fashioned Garden is the first book to concentrate on the history of these structures, locating pergolas, summerhouses, dovecotes, and other outbuildings in the context of their specific period, place, and garden style.

With evidence gleaned from American paintings, photographs, historical narratives, archival publications, and personal recollections, the author reveals which structures suit a weathered clapboard house, or a bungalow, or an adobe ranch, for example, and she explains the latest fashions in garden furnishings when these houses were first built. The result is a full-scale portrait of American garden architecture, as seen in town and country large and small, east coast to west coast.

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H.N. Abrams
Language
English
Pages
160

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p.145-152) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
717/.0973
Library of Congress
NA8450 .H55 1998, NA8450.H55 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
160 p. :
Number of pages
160

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL347312M
Internet Archive
furnishingoldfas0000hill
ISBN 10
0810933357
LCCN
98006422
OCLC/WorldCat
38732068
Library Thing
175046
Goodreads
251980

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