The true story of the invention of Britain's greatest - and most underappreciated - art form
Tim Richardson has been writing about the English landscape garden for over 14 years. he was gardens editor of Country Life from 1995-99 and is the author/editor of The Garden Book (Phaidon), as well as author of English Gardens in the Twentieth Century (Aurum) and The Vanguard Landcapes and Gardens of Martha Schwartz (Thames and Hudson). He is also the world's foremost confectionery historian and author of Sweets- A History of Temptation. He lives in north London.
Wonderfully rich and packed with vivid details...The Arcadian
Friends deserves to become a classic
*Guardian*
The Arcadian Friends offers an invigorating new approach to
familiar garden history territory. In the company of his large
cast, Richardson guides us deftly through varied landscapes full of
surprises.
*Sunday Telegraph*
Replete with first-rate scholarship... there are many delights
here
*Literary Review*
Richardson explains this with verve and enthusiasm, and a measure
of his success is that he makes the reader want to visit, or
revisit, the gardens he describes
*Telegraph*
Wonderfully engaging... This book gives us a way to read the
landscape and see again what the original owners intended.
*Spectator*
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