Shell houses and grottoes
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The shell house or artificial grotto has a long and intriguing history in architecture and garden design. This book traces the history if the grotto in the British Isles from its origins in Italy to the late 20th century.
The artificial grotto has a long and intriguing history in architecture and garden design. This book describes the origins of the grotto in Renaissance Italy, its heyday in eighteenth-century England, its decline in the nineteenth century and its return to favour in the twentieth century.
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