Chatsworth : the gardens and the people who made them. / txt
Alan Titchmarsh ; foreword by The Duke of Devonshire ; photography by Jonathan Buckley.
- 288 p. : ill. ; col. ; photo. ; col. ; table ; 27 cm. book
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword 10 -- 1 First Impressions 16 -- 2 The Views and the Landscape 26 -- 3 Bess of Hardwick 40 -- 4 The Formal Gardens 50 -- 5 Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown 62 -- 6 The Water 72 -- 7 James Paine 86 -- 8 The Follies 94 -- 9 Sir Jeffrey Wyatville and the Bachelor Duke 106 -- 10 The Glasshouses 116 -- 11 Sir Joseph Paxton 130 -- 12 Deborah Devonshire 136 -- 13 Arcadia 148 -- 14 Tom Stuart Smith and Dan Pearson 160 -- 15 The Rock Garden 168 -- 16 Royalty and Chatsworth 180 -- 17 The Arboretum and Pinetum 190 -- 18 The 12th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire 204 -- 19 The Ravine 214 -- 20 Chatsworth Cricket Club 224 -- 21 The Maze 230 -- 22 Art Exhibitions in the Gardens 238 -- 23 Sculpture 244 -- 24 Shows and Fairs 252 -- 25 The Kitchen and Cutting Garden 260 -- 26 The Learning Centre 270 -- 27 The Twenty First Century 272 -- The Cavendish Family: From Bess to Stoker 278 -- Acknowledgements 282 -- Bibliography 284 -- Index 285 --
Featuring stunning, specially commissioned photography of the gardens and parkland, alongside long-forgotten images and memorabilia newly unearthed in the estate archives, this vivid companion, crowded with character and colour, is a book to treasure and revisit over and over again