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Landscape gardens and view to Swan House folly (ca. 1777)
The royal gardens of Drottningholm in Stockholm are a magnificent example of several epochs of landscape design side-by-side, displaying both internationally influent styles and local traditions. The layout is centered on the baroque castle (by Nicodemus Tessin Sr. in 1661) and central parterre gardens, by Nicodemus Tessin Jr. and Johan Hårleman, largely preserved today after a restoration in the 1950s.
On either sides of the terraces, lime avenues, bosquets and green theatres and garden rooms that constitute the baroque backbone of the garden, different styles and epochs taking advantage of the topography of the peninsula have been added; such as the notable Chinese Pavilions and gardens (1763-69 by Carl Frederik Adelcrantz), a separate formal layout containing one of the finest examples of the anglo-chinois fashion with a small “chinese” palace, several side pavilions, aviaries, orangeries and chestnut avenues. Later additions include a “Turkish tent” pavilion for the royal guards (1781), an entire romantic landscape park section in the English tradition featuring lakes, islands, bridges, mazes and vistas focused on several follies and sculpture pieces (laid out from 1777 by Carl Frederik Adelcrantz and Fredrik Magnus Piper), and a separate small archipelago garden south of the palace with ten islands linked by bridges and a classicist boathouse.
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Landscape gardens and view to Swan House folly (ca. 1777)
The royal gardens of Drottningholm in Stockholm are a magnificent example of several epochs of landscape design side-by-side, displaying both internationally influent styles and local traditions. The layout is centered on the baroque castle (by Nicodemus Tessin Sr. in 1661) and central parterre gardens, by Nicodemus Tessin Jr. and Johan Hårleman, largely preserved today after a restoration in the 1950s.
On either sides of the terraces, lime avenues, bosquets and green theatres and garden rooms that constitute the baroque backbone of the garden, different styles and epochs taking advantage of the topography of the peninsula have been added; such as the notable Chinese Pavilions and gardens (1763-69 by Carl Frederik Adelcrantz), a separate formal layout containing one of the finest examples of the anglo-chinois fashion with a small “chinese” palace, several side pavilions, aviaries, orangeries and chestnut avenues. Later additions include a “Turkish tent” pavilion for the royal guards (1781), an entire romantic landscape park section in the English tradition featuring lakes, islands, bridges, mazes and vistas focused on several follies and sculpture pieces (laid out from 1777 by Carl Frederik Adelcrantz and Fredrik Magnus Piper), and a separate small archipelago garden south of the palace with ten islands linked by bridges and a classicist boathouse.