Artist’s listed building, Sandycombe Lodge, rescued from threat of collapseIn 1812 the artist JMW Turner totted up the cost of the garden he proposed to make from a rough sloping plot of sandy ground, around the tiny country house he was designing and building as a refuge from the noise and dirt of London: “100 planting. 20 Garden. 40 Pond”, he scribbled in the margin of his sketchbook. Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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