Quest for Nature

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 ArtsAugust 23, 2013

William Kent and the English idyll – The Quest for Nature

By Carolyn McDowall

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

Arts & Culture Conversations, Built Environment, Creativity, Design History & Decorative Arts, Design Styles, Environment, Gardens & Landscaping, Social HistoryMarch 1, 2011

Along the Yarra at Melbourne in Autumn

By Carolyn McDowall

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.