The 'picturesque' or 'natural' garden became the rage in 18th-century Europe. Largely created in England, it was exported to other countries, which strove to adapt its forms to local conditions.
This is the first book about that famous episode in garden history to look at the larger, European map of landscape design. It surveys a wide range of sites, the contributions to their creation by both amateurs and professionals and the dialogue between practical place-making and the theoretical formulations that began with Alexander Pope and Joseph Addison.
The picturesque garden in France had its own direction even while it looked to England and China for inspiration and the French produced a crop of essays on the new 'modern' garden as well as a set of astonishing designs that were wholly and distinctly French. The book surveys the impact of English and French design on other countries, in particular Sweden, the German-speaking lands and Russia.
This is a scholarly and essential book for garden designers as well as being a beautiful one.
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