Glasshouses

Name: Glasshouses
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ISBN: 9780747812463

ISBN-10: 0747812462

ISBN-13: 9780747812463

Edition: 2013

Authors: Fiona Grant

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The orangeries and glasshouses that stand in the gardens of many stately homes help to tell a three-century story of garden fashion. They reflect both the architectural and social trends of their time, but above all show an increasing ability to tailor the buildings to the needs of the plants within. Starting with the Restoration fashion for cultivating pineapples, oranges and bananas within palatial orangeries, Fiona Grant then explains the development of glasshouses through the eighteenth century into the heyday of diversification and specialisation that charaterized the Victorian period, to the eventual decline of great glasshouses after the First World War. The role of the glasshouse as…

Book details

List price: $8.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 7/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 72
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.21" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English



Introduction


The Orangery


An Age of Experimentation


Early Iron-Framed Glasshouses


The Paxton Effect


The Mass-Produced Glasshouse


Restoration


List of Manufacturers


Places to Visit


Further Reading


Index