EDWARDIAN COUNTRY LIFE THE STORY OF H AV
Author(s): GERRISH HELENA
Henry Avray Tipping (1855-1933) was a wealthy architectural historian and garden designer. As Architectural Editor of Country Life he made it essential reading for everyone interested in Britain's great country houses, their furnishings and their gardens. Tipping restored a bishop's palace for himself and his mother, built one of the last important country houses in which to entertain the Edwardian great and good, and, after the First World War, commissioned his ideal 'cottage'. Always the garden came first; each was a perfect Edwardian idyll. As a fine gardener herself, the author describes Tipping's own Monmouthshire gardens at Mathern Palace, Mounton House and her own High Glanau Manor, as well as gardens he designed for others, notably at Chequers and Dartington Hall. Tipping, who had no family of his own, was central to the lives and work of such distinguished garden designers as Robinson, Jekyll and Peto.
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Helena Gerrish has immersed herself in a fruitful search for the story of her enigmatic predecessor at High Glanau and now gives talks, writes articles and throws open her beautifully restored garden to hundreds of visitors during the summer.
Introduction 1 Henry Avray Tipping 1855-1933 2 Tipping and colleagues at Country Life 3 Mathern, Mounton and the Great War 4 Chequers and other garden projects 5 High Glanau Conclusion Bibliography Gazetteer Picture Credits Index
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- : Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
- : Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
- : 1.451
- : 01 August 2011
- : 287mm X 230mm X 23mm
- : United Kingdom
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- : 150 colour and b&w illustrations
- : 208
- : 712.092
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- : GERRISH HELENA