
William Kent and the English idyll – The Quest for Nature
William Kent English architect, interior designer, painter & landscape architect ‘leaped the fence’ & saw all nature was a garden’ & designed the perfect house
William Kent English architect, interior designer, painter & landscape architect ‘leaped the fence’ & saw all nature was a garden’ & designed the perfect house
Here at Melbourne, where the climate creates four full seasons, laying out parks and planting trees developed into an art form. Today with many over a hundred years old, it is the cities trees that are among its greatest assets.