Article 03, paisea 006. Revisited topiary. Antoni Falcón
In one of Evelyn Vaugh’s novels, Brideshead revisited, captain Charles Ryder came back during war to Brideshead’s mansion, turned into a military camp. There, he remembered his youth years and the lazy summer days he spent in Brideshead, with his friend Sebastian Flyte and his family. The novel, adapted for television by the BBC in the 80’s, was shoot in Castle Howard, Yorshire, one of the first examples of landscape architecture gardens, created in England between 1700 and 1750. In it, formality and nature are harmonically melted on the main flower bed designed by Vanbrugh. Big cubic pieces with cut yew tree, placed over a large grass tapestry on a first shoot according to the mansion, work as the entrance of a landscape with large forests, winding lakes and temples and bridges with a classic inspiration. Castle Howard is a good example that allows us to revisit the topiary art, its history and its future.
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