Spielhaus Garden, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, last August.
Tag: terrace
Vintage landscape: Florence
“Palmieri, Firenze [ or Florence, Italy] – Box garden from level of tennis court,” ca. 1915, via Arthur Peck Collection, Oregon State University (OSU) Special Collections & Archives Commons on flickr.
Note the patterns of the clipped boxwood in the middle distance and those on the villa at the top.
Arthur Peck was a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Oregon Agricultural College from 1908 to 1948. During his long career, he created a teaching library of 24 boxes of glass lantern slides — now in OSU’s archives.
Behind the house the upland falls
With many an odorous tree—
White marbles gleaming through green halls—
Terrace by terrace, down and down,
And meets the star-lit Mediterranean Sea.‘Tis Paradise. . . .
— Herman Melville, from “After the Pleasure Party: Lines Traced Under an Image of Amor Threatening“
Life in gardens: bay trees
Placing potted bay trees on the east wing terrace, White House, Washington, D.C., between 1910 and 1917, by Harris & Ewing, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (both photos).
East terrace, White House, 1923, by National Photo Company.
On a terrace
Also from France, by Eugène Trutat . . .
“Portrait de famille sur une terrasse,” 1901, via Bibliothèque de Toulouse Commons on flickr.
Vintage landscape: a terrace
A farmhouse of To (or Ter) Coulster, in the town of Heiloo, Netherlands, 1815, by J. A. Crescent, via Regionaal Archief Alkmaar Commons on flickr.
You can click on the image to enlarge it. There are more of Crescent’s charming watercolors here.
A garden is the interface between the house and the rest of civilization.
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