{"product_id":"the-english-landscape-garden","title":"The English Landscape Garden","description":"\u003cb\u003eSmooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary ... the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This \u003cb\u003esumptuous, beautifully photographed \u003c\/b\u003evolume celebrates this quintessentially British creation, arguably its greatest artform, taking you on a tour of 20 of the finest surviving gardens, including: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Studley Royal (Yorkshire), a \u003cb\u003edreamy valley garden\u003c\/b\u003e which culminates with a view down and across the ruins of a Cistercian abbey \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Stowe (Buckinghamshire), the great politically motivated garden of its day, boasting the ensemble masterpiece that is William Kent’s Elysian Fields \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chiswick House (London), \u003cb\u003eLord Burlington’s experiment in neoclassical architecture\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Petworth (Sussex) – of ‘Capability’ Brown, who eschewed the symbolism of earlier generations but created instead his own powerful vision of pastoral Arcadia \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Hawkstone Park (Shropshire), designed to elicit a thrill of fear in visitors as they \u003cb\u003etraverse rocky precipices and encounter live hermits\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e Including much new research and specially commissioned photographs, this is a book to dive into and be transported to an idyllic dream realm.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481391341941,"sku":"9780711290921","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780711290921.jpg?v=1786089649","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/the-english-landscape-garden","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}