Garden History
Crystal Palace or Palacio de Cristal in Spanish, is a glass pavilion inspired by The Crystal Palace in London and designed in 1887 by Ricardo Velázquez Bosco. Modeled on London’s Crystal Palace of the 1850s, Madrid’s greatest wrought-iron and glass-domed Industrial Revolution structure was launched just 30 years later to stage an exhibition of Philippine […]
The Point Grey Chrysanthemum Association was founded in 1937. It has two shows in 2010, the early mum show in September and the late mum show in November (see site for more details). Their site contains a variety of topics concerning the growing of mums: taking cuttings, shortening growing season for mums and maximizing blooms […]
Richard Loader is one of the International Garden Photographer of the Year Exhibition finalists. The International Garden Photographer of the Year Exhibition (IGPOTY) will be displayed on the northern most path on the Downs. It will feature, for the first time ever, the collected images from the trees category of this prestigious international award from the last two […]
John La Farge, painter, stained glass designer. Among his many commissions, decoration of the Trinity Church in Boston placed La Farge at the forefront of the American Arts and Crafts movement. He early admired the formality and patterning of Japanese art, and he recorded his impressions of his travels in Asia in An Artist’s Letters from […]
Designed by Annie E. Aldrich (American, 1857–1937); Made by John Swallow (American, born England, active c. 1910); Decorated by Sarah Tutt (American, 1859–1947); Marblehead Pottery (1904–1936). Vase, c. 1909. Marblehead, Massachusetts. Glazed earthenware. The Art Institute of Chicago, Vance American Fund; restricted gift of the Antiquarian Society.
William Morris was such a protean figure that the following sections of the William Morris Society website can only provide a guide to his life and works. Two of the four sections of the website illustrate Morris’ Art and Life, containing introductory material, examples, and links to additional material found on the website. Art: Morris’s […]
