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Jardins fantastiques
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ISBN: 2281160408 9782281160406 Year: 1982 Publisher: (Paris) Editions du moniteur


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The hermit in the garden : from imperial Rome to ornamental gnome
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ISBN: 1299277055 019164448X 9780191644481 9780199696994 0199696993 9781299277052 0191644498 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a ruined state. Landowners peopled their hermitages either with imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the landowner even became his own hermit. Those


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Gartenmöbel des Jugendstils : Künstlermodelle für Beissbarth & Hoffmann Manheim-Rheinau : [exposition : Karlsruhe, Badischen Landesmuseum, 11 mai-25 août 1996 ; Cologne, Internationale Fachmesse für Sportartikel, 1er septembre-3 septembre 1996]
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ISBN: 3923132557 3765090492 Year: 1996 Publisher: Karlsruhe Badisches Landesmuseums

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