Estate & Design
Landscape
Gardens, grounds and landscape architecture: the land as part of the work.
Landscape
Hidcote Manor Garden: The Invention of the Outdoor Room
On a Gloucestershire hillside, Lawrence Johnston divided ten acres into a sequence of walled garden rooms. A century on, every serious garden designer still works in the grammar he invented.
Landscape
Villa d'Este: The Garden That Taught Europe
On a steep hillside at Tivoli, Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este and his designer Pirro Ligorio made water do the work of architecture, and changed the European garden for good.
Landscape
Rousham: The Augustan Garden
In the Cherwell valley, William Kent composed his most complete landscape as a sequence of classical scenes, and the family that commissioned it still lives there.