Shell Houses and Grottoes
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The artificial grotto has a long and intriguing history in architecture and garden design.
This book describes the origins of the grotto in Renaissance Italy, its heyday in eighteenth-century England, its decline in the nineteenth century and its return to favour in the twentieth century.
Table of Contents
Early grottoes
Grottoes in the eighteenth century: The 'nymphaeum', The shell grotto and house, the simulated limestone cave
Grottoes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Design, construction and decoration
Further reading
Gazetteer of grottoes to visit
Grottoes in the eighteenth century: The 'nymphaeum', The shell grotto and house, the simulated limestone cave
Grottoes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Design, construction and decoration
Further reading
Gazetteer of grottoes to visit
Product details
| Published | 01 Aug 2001 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 40 |
| ISBN | 9780747805229 |
| Imprint | Shire Publications |
| Dimensions | 210 x 149 mm |
| Series | Shire Library |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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