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Capability Brown: Designing the English Landscape

On Sale: November 1, 2016
Publisher: Rizzoli
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 978-0-8478-4883-6

In celebration of his 300th year, the new book "Capability Brown: Designing the English Landscape" is the definitive survey of Lancelot "Capability" Brown’s most famous gardens and landscapes in Britain.

Widely acknowledged as the most influential landscape designer of his age, Brown was to England what Frederick Law Olmsted was to America—responsible for shaping the very ideal of the nation’s parkland. Brown’s ambition was to bring out of a landscape the best of its potential rather than impose his own ideas upon it. So natural are his designs, and so perfectly do they complement the houses within them, that for many a Capability Brown landscape is the epitome of the English estate. His gardens and parklands—as much as the houses themselves—would become icons of British country life.

Published to coincide with the tercentenary of his birth, this remarkable book illuminates fifteen of Brown’s most celebrated landscapes, including rarely seen archival drawings that shed light on Brown’s process. This book serves as a guide to Britain’s most beloved landscapes and an exploration of the masterful mind behind their creation.

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About the Authors:
JOHN PHIBBS set up the Capability Brown 1716–2016 Partnership and is a renowned garden historian and author with more than thirty years’ experience in the management and restoration of historic landscapes. JOE CORNISH is an award-winning landscape photographer and an honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society with a studio and gallery in Yorkshire, England.

Music: Topher Mohr and Alex Elena