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Articles found in Period Tag: Modern

Places

Eleonora Tonon takes us on a tour of Cecil Pinsent’s famous 20th Century gardens in Tuscany, from their inspiration to their creation.

People

Cecil Pinsent trained in London before settling in Florence, where he created symmetrical, geometrically ordered Tuscan gardens for the vibrant local Anglo-American expatriate community.

Styles / Topics

English gardens have been deeply intertwined with Italian design since Roman antiquity, evolving through Tudor symmetry, classical 18th-century revivalism, and Victorian geometric formalism.

Places

When she created East Lambrook Manor Garden, from a farmyard and a rubbish heap, Marjorie Fish developed a new cottage garden style that had a huge influence on garden owners of the time and is still relevant today

Topics

The Society has produced an Annual Report since 1833 and these invaluable records are now available online

Places / Topics

One of the city’s most enduring innovations has been quietly shaping lives for almost two centuries.

Topics

The invention and troubled introduction of the secateur in France and England as a replacement to the billhook and pruning knife

Topics

The first football pitches of the 1800s were scythed or grazed but over time evolved into highly maintained landscapes incorporating drainage, heating and new technology such as Astroturf

Topics

John takes us on a journey through football pitches of the 60s and 70s from both a spectator and a player’s perspective