The Follies and Garden Buildings of Ireland
Released: Feb 10, 2004
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback, 270 pages
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Description:
This entertaining and lovely book―the first to focus solely on follies and other garden buildings in Ireland―re-creates in word and image the wonder of these picturesque and fanciful architectural oddities.
"A work of sustained scholarship and relish for the subject."―Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement
"A feast of ephemeral architectural embellishment."―House and Garden
"[A] pioneering book. . . . It is beautifully designed and the well researched text is accompanied by excellent measured drawings and wonderful photographs. The volume is a delight to peruse, a veritable encyclopedia of the extraordinary and the fantastic."―Roger Stalley, The Irish Times
"A major achievement."―Deborah Singmaster, Architects’ Journal
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