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Published  to  coincide  with  the  tercentenary  of  his birth,  this  remarkable  book  illuminates  fifteen  of Brown s  most  celebrated  landscapes.  To  love  the great English estates is to love the settings with which Brown  surrounded  them from  idyllic  parklands  at Milton  and  Broadlands  to  structured  landscapes around  iconic  houses  at  Blenheim,  Burghley,  Wake- field,  and  Chatsworth. With  photography  commissioned  for  the  book,  and  including  rarely  seen archival drawings that shed light on Brown s process, this book serves as a guide to Britain s most beloved landscapes and an exploration of the masterful mind behind their creation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49731154346257,"sku":"NGR9780847848836","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49874891997457,"sku":"GOR009963185","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51707006288145,"sku":"GOR011716480","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52846179123473,"sku":"GOR011153741","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53266537251089,"sku":"CIN0847848833VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0847848833.jpg?v=1751139110"},{"product_id":"humphry-repton-book-john-phibbs-9780847863549","title":"Humphry Repton","description":"Widely acknowledged as the last great landscape designer of the eighteenth century, Humphry Repton created work that survives as a bridge between the picturesque theory of Capability Brown and the pastoral philosophy of Frederick Law Olmsted. By turns inspired by and in opposition to the grandeur of Brown s estates, Repton s contribution to the British landscape encompassed a tremendous range, from subtle adjustments that emphasised the natural features of the countryside to deliberate interventions that challenged the notion of the picturesque. This remarkable book explores 15 of Repton s most celebrated landscapes from the early maturity of his gardens at Courteenhall and Mulgrave Castle to more adventurous landscapes at Stanage, Brightling, and Endsleigh that would point the way toward how we envision parkland today. With photography by Joe Cornish commissioned specially for the book, and including reproductions of key illustrations and plans for garden design from the famous red books that shed light on Repton s vision and process, this book illuminates some of Britain s most beautiful gardens and parks and the masterful mind behind their creation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739344609553,"sku":"NGR9780847863549","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50893168771345,"sku":"GOR012316557","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0847863549.jpg?v=1751450229"},{"product_id":"place-making-book-john-phibbs-9781848023567","title":"Place-making","description":"Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-1783) is the iconic figure at the head of the English landscape style, a tradition that has dominated landscape design in the western world. He was widely acclaimed for his genius in his own day and his influence on the culture of England has arguably been as great as that of Turner, Telford and Wordsworth. Yet, although Brown has had his biographers, his work has generated very little analysis. Brown was prolific; he has had a direct influence on half a million acres of England and Wales. The astonishing scale of his work means that he did not just transform the English countryside, but also our idea of what it is to be English and what England is. His work is everywhere, but goes largely unnoticed. His was such a naturalistic style that all his best work was mistaken for untouched nature. This has made it very difficult to see and understand. Visitors to Brown landscapes do not question the existence of the parkland he created and there has been little professional or academic analysis of his work. This book for the first time looks at the motivation behind Brown's landscapes and questions their value and structure whilst at the same time placing him within the English landscape tradition. It aims primarily to make landscape legible, to show people where to stand, what to look at and how to see.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51393244725521,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51393245249809,"sku":"GOR008390732","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1848023561.jpg?v=1751314163"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/collections\/author-books-by-john-phibbs.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}