Property News · June 14, 2018

Turner's house and garden smell of roses after restoration


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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