Resumen de Edwardian gardens, old and new
Robert Williams
"A fairly recent movement in garden design has revolutionized the surroundings of the house", the anglophile German cultural attaché Hermann Muthesius reported home of England in 1904. Muthesius's appreciative comments in Das englische Haus on the revitalized spirit of garden design in the Edwardian era echo perceptions widely promulgated in England at that time, following the explosion of interest in the subject that had occurred in the early 1890s. This "fairly recent movement", which was initiated by two books in particular-J. D. Sedding's Garden-Craft Old and New (1891), and The Formal Garden in England (1892) by Reginald Blomfield and F. Inigo Thomas-began as a struggle to reinstate the architectural, or formal, garden, with its terraces, pools, pergolas, pavilions and old-fashioned flowers. This reinstatement depended on reclaiming for the architect the grounds surrounding the house, areas that throughout the nineteenth century had been the exclusive preserve of landscape gardeners and professional horticulturalists, as H. Avray Tipping dolefully remembered.
