European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects (1902)
Brown, Glenn, 1854-1932, Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926, Sturgis, R. Clipston (Richard Clipston), 1860-1951, Howard, John Galen, 1864-1931, Honda, K · Philadelphia, H. T. Coates · leaf 135
sense of the beautiful in space; and in like degreehe had, to quote one of his biographers, the sense of elegancein majesty and regularity. He was especially fortunate inhis patron. Louis XIV was an ideal client for a designer likele Notre. While he seems not to have been the actual discov-erer of… … PLAN OF THE GARDENS AND PARK accounts of his dealings with his artists of various ivinds, thatthe Grand Monarque was far from being what an architectwould call an easy client. He had ideas of his own, thoughthe knew it all better than the cleverest of others, made changesfrom beginning to end…
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