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Dézallier D'Argenville, Antoine Joseph · 1709 · 54 pictures

A 1709 French gardening treatise by Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville, printed in Paris for garden makers and their patrons, setting out theory and practice of formal garden design. Its plates are plan views of parterres, bosquets and clairvoies, with scrollwork compartments, star-shaped hedge patterns and geometric hedged cabinets drawn as precise top-down layouts. A designer could borrow the ornamental symmetry of these plans for pattern, tile or ironwork motifs.

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