Chiswick House

Monticello-with-Blossoms
Ancient Societies, Antiques Miscellany, Antiquities, Architecture, Art, Built Environment, Creativity, Cultural Development, Design History & Decorative Arts, Design Styles, Featured, Gardens & Landscaping, Interior Design, Interiors, Social History, Visual Arts

Thomas Jefferson at Monticello – To See and be Seen

By

Throughout his life Thomas Jefferson was continually putting his house Monticello up or pushing it down as his knowledge and experience of life and architecture expanded.

Rousham Kentian Garden
Ancient Societies, Architecture, Art, Built Environment, Creativity, Cultural Development, Design History & Decorative Arts, Design Styles, Featured, Gardens & Landscaping, Learn About Art, Natural Environment, Portraiture, Social History, The Culture Concept, Visual Arts

William Kent and the English idyll – The Quest for Nature

By

William Kent English architect, interior designer, painter & landscape architect ‘leaped the fence’ & saw all nature was a garden’ & designed the perfect house

Villa Capra, 'La Rotunda' by Venetian Architect Andrea Palladio in the Veneto, Italy
Ancient Societies, Architecture, Art, Arts & Culture Conversations, Built Environment, Creativity, Cultural Development, Design History & Decorative Arts, Design Styles, Featured, Gardens & Landscaping, Humanities, Interior Design, Interiors, Literature, Social History, The Culture Concept, Visual Arts, What is Series

What Is: Palladian Style, More than a Villa in the Veneto?

By

16th century architect Andrea Palladio contributed to the classical language of architecture providing an emotional experience with his villas in the Veneto