Garden Designer Charles Gillette

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Garden designer charles gillette. His ouevre was a developement and transliteration of the uniquely american jekyll lutyens synthesis of natural and formal garden design. Gillette and photographs taken by him on european trip june 18 august 1 1912 frances loeb library graduate school of design harvard university cambridge mass. A handbook to selected gardens by charles f.

Journal of charles f. Gillette a noted virginia landscape architect whose colonial revival designs are highly regarded. As a colonial revival designer gillette did not aim for archaeologically authentic designs.

Charles gillette played a pivotal design role in early 20th century virginia which was felt thorought the country. Charles freeman gillette 1886 1969 was a prominent landscape architect in the upper south who specialized in the creation of grounds supporting colonial revival architecture particularly in richmond virginia he is associated with the restoration and re creation of historic gardens in the upper south and especially virginia. Much of the credit for agecroft hall s elegant gardens belongs to the designer who originally laid them out.

Charles freeman gillette gillette experimented with several vocations including teaching in a secondary school and serving as a nurse in a mental institution before becoming an apprentice at the firm of warren manning in boston massachusetts in 1909. The amstel house s colonial revival garden was originally designed by charles f. He is known for having established a regional style known as.

His gardens can be found at many vir. His decision was influenced by a love of landscape scenery encouraged by his father a farmer and herbalist and by his observation while a.