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August 3, 2019
Design has long been used as a cosmetic addition to the construction of a garden: simply look at Renaissance knot gardens and elaborate Victorian carpet bedding for cases. Today the whole garden could become one big pattern. Designers of modern, conceptual gardens are showing us that a garden could be more than an outside room with pragmatic applications; it may be a work of art in its own right, seen the same way that contemporary conceptual art is seen in galleries.
Hallmark Interior Design LLC
Knot gardens were developed during the Renaissance in Europe as elaborate, decorative attributes composed of geometric patterns. This patio indicates a modern twist on the traditional knot garden layout.
Although the place connects to other parts of a bigger garden, it may be regarded as a patterned feature in its own right, with its purpose as mainly decorative and not utilitarian.
Brion Jeannette Architecture
We’re starting to see modern designs which employ pattern as more than decoration, as an intrinsic part of the whole layout — even at the most minimalist of gardens.
Here rectangular pavers direct into an island terrace, making a simple, repetitious layout — but the clever designer integrated this pattern into the whole garden layout.
Ecocentrix landscape design
Pattern in a modern garden does not always need to be accomplished by hardscaping. The space with texture and pattern fills. The design, linear planting puts movement into the plan and emphasizes the pattern obviously.
Christopher Yates Landscape Architecture
Formal patterns sometimes suit better than more fluid layouts. This horizontal pattern not just aesthetically makes the most of a leading entrance lender, but in addition helps in sensible bank retention.
The layout is scaled to link sympathetically into the building, therefore it is part of the general layout and not a separate thing.
Kettelkamp & Kettelkamp
Spirals are among the most distinct structural contours in character: ammonites, the pattern of seeds in a sunflower and the form of DNA molecules, as an example. The spiral is a symbol of a religious journey to some and is an easy blueprint used by many cultures.
Used this as a layout cut from grass, the spiral is merely a pattern which fills an open space.
Stefan Laport Landscape Architect IFLA
The development of conceptual gardens has been a turning point in using pattern in garden design. The word “conceptual gardens” is credited to Tim Richardson, a landscape writer and the author of the revolutionary book Avant Gardeners.
The conceptual garden attempts to depict an idea instead of provide a landscape layout solution. It may employ pattern to present what some classify as contemporary art.
Stefan Laport Landscape Architect IFLA
The growth of this concept of design has arrived via the upsurge of global garden festivals, where designers experimentation away from the constraints of standard flower shows, such as the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
The style here is part of a theme garden entitled “The Romans and the Limes,” constructed at the 2011 National Garden Show in Germany. There are many festivals leading conceptual garden layout throughout the world, including Chaumont-sur-Loire, in France; Reford Gardens, in Quebec; along with the RHS Hampton Court Palace Show, at England.
Stefan Laport Landscape Architect IFLA
This patterned layout reveals pure pleasure in the idea depicted. There’s little practical, utilitarian purpose into the layout: little area for seats, no barbecue zone, no raised beds for food production. It’s a style of artistic merit which delights the eye in its own right.
Stefan Laport Landscape Architect IFLA
Here we view the extremes that conceptual gardens can go to, with layouts that are contemporary art in their own right.
Some may believe that the attractiveness of traditional gardens makes them more art, and it’s stated that the English landscape garden is the most significant art form to emerge from England. But others, a traditional garden, such as a cottage garden, that’s a jumble of flowers and veggies would be the ultimate celebration of artlessness.
The wonderful pattern shown here, with the squares and tulips planted on centre, is the great thing about this design design.
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