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  1. Artists and Designers in the Garden (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Garden designers from New Zealand, California and Toronto explain their gardening ideas. Shows a number of gardens including Claudia Ellis’ ‘still life’ garden, Mendocino, California; Andrew Hodge’s...

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  2. England’s Green and Pleasant Land (1997)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 29 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Explores the concept of national identity using landscape, artr, architecture and interior design to look at some of the ways in which ideas of Englishness have developed and have been perpetuated and...

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  3. Great Gardens of the American West (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Design
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Grahame Beakhust visits at private and public gardens in California, British Columbia and Washington state and interviews their creators. Shows various gardens including the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden...

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  4. Dan Kiley: Fountain Place, Dallas, Texas (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 11 min., 1997 sale: £19.95 (+VAT +p&p)

    Dan Kiley, perhaps America’s leading landscape architect, is a classicist in his use of regular geometry. Two constant themes in his urban gardens are water and light, and never more so than at Fountain...

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  5. Landscape Tutor: Rothbury Data Set (1995 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    A CAL module offering a means of presenting photographic landscapes for the purpose of interactive landscape analysis. Using structured exercises, the student gains experience of ‘reading’ a landscape by...

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  6. Art and Architecture of Gardens, The (1990 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, 92 Slides. col.

    The drawings in the exhibition were chosen by Jane Brown and are included in her book ‘The Art and Architecture of English Gardens’. The exhibition displays some eighty images relating to the design of...

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  7. English Landscape Garden, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Explores the garden of Rousham House, Oxfordshire, designed by William Kent. Gardens in the late 17th century had been formal in design, in imitation of French examples such as Versailles. In the early 18th...

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  8. English Garden, The. Part 1: A Tapestry of Herbs and Roses (To 1660) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min.

    The story of great gardens in England and Wales from Roman times to the 1980s. This programme opens with Sir John Gielgud in the Jubilee Gardens, London, remarking that the English garden often reflected the...

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  9. English Garden, The. Part 2: A Pattern for Pleasure (1660-1725) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    Looks at the influence of Dutch, French and Italian styles after the Restoration. Walls of trees and hedges became the vogue as did the use of statues and terracing. There was much interest in exotic plants...

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  10. English Garden, The. Part 3: A Temple in the Grove (1725-1755) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    The invention of the sunken fence or ‘ha-ha’ set designers free to harmonise the surrounding countryside with the garden, while loosening up the regularity of previous gardens. Locations include a...

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