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The Laskett : the story of a garden / Roy Strong.
- Title
- The Laskett : the story of a garden / Roy Strong.
- Author
- Strong, Roy
- Publication
- London ; New York : Bantam, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | SB466.G8 L377 2003x | Off-site |
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- Description
- 272 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.), plan; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "This is the story of one man and a garden. It is also the portrait of a marriage expressed through the vision and mystery of creating a garden. Neither the author, Roy Strong, nor his wife, the designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, had foreseen this when they eloped and married in 1971. Over thirty years on they find themselves surrounded by the largest formal garden made in this country since 1945, increasingly recognized as one of the most important laid out in the second half of the twentieth century. And yet it was done not only with little money and less labour, but quite unconsciously." "The Laskett is the unique story of someone who, with his wife, has been at the centre of the arts for half a century. A great love affair, a portrait of a marriage, a haunting and human tale of a garden as the domain of ghosts and as the habitat of memory, within its confines can be found both joy and happiness as well as the fears of tragedy."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Story of a garden
- Subject
- Note
- Illustrated end papers.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue: The Elopement -- 1. The Inheritance -- 2. Inspirations and Influences -- 3. Planning Paradise -- 4. Brave Spirit and the Bringer of Rain -- 5. How Does Your Garden Grow? -- 6. Portrait Gallery -- 7. Triumphs and Tribulations -- Epilogue: Portrait of a Marriage.
- ISBN
- 0593050703
- LCCN
- ^^2004401852
- OCLC
- 53461393
- SCSB-12616555
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library