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Sir Joseph Paxton was born on August 3, 1801 in Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire, England, the seventh son of a farming family.
(Best remembered today for his technically innovative desi...)
Best remembered today for his technically innovative design for the Crystal Palace of 1851, Joseph Paxton (1803-65) was head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth by the age of twenty-three, and remained involved in gardening throughout his life. Tapping in to the burgeoning interest in gardening amongst the Victorians, in 1841 he founded the periodical The Gardener's Chronicle with the botanist John Lindley (1799-1865), with whom he had worked on a Government report on Kew Gardens. Paxton's Flower Garden appeared between 1850 and 1853, following a series of plant-collecting expeditions. Only three of the planned ten volumes were published, but with hand-coloured plates (which can be viewed online alongside this reissue) and over 500 woodcuts, the work is lavish. Volume 1 includes colour plates of orchids, Lindley's speciality, along with a pitcher plant and Moutan peony, both still unusual and exotic at the time of publication.
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
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(Best remembered today for his technically innovative desi...)
Best remembered today for his technically innovative design for the Crystal Palace of 1851, Joseph Paxton (1803-65) was head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth by the age of twenty-three, and remained involved in gardening throughout his life. Tapping in to the burgeoning interest in gardening amongst the Victorians, in 1841 he founded the periodical The Gardener's Chronicle with the botanist John Lindley (1799-1865), with whom he had worked on a Government report on Kew Gardens. Paxton's Flower Garden appeared between 1850 and 1853, following a series of plant-collecting expeditions. Only three of the planned ten volumes were published, but with hand-coloured plates (which can be viewed online alongside this reissue) and over 500 woodcuts, the work is lavish. Further colour plates of orchids are to be found in Volume 2, clearly a reflection of Lindley's interest, but also of the wider fascination for these flowers.
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(Crystal Palace exists today as perfectly as it ever did; ...)
Crystal Palace exists today as perfectly as it ever did; in a set of detailed manufacturing and assembly drawings, and in detailed verbal descriptions of its design, components and processes of erection. For the realist, therefore, it can be built tomorrow, on any reasonably levelled site, with perfect precision. Designed to house the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London's Hyde Park, it was erected, briefly brought to life, and then speedily removed. We know this through the recorded experience of its brief production and inhabitation, in words and woodcuts, as well as in chromolithographs and a very few surviving daguerrotypes and calotypes. This is not a history of the 1851 Exhibition, the begetter of, and setting for, the building. The context for this study also includes other rejected ideas for its building as well as how the actual building was occupied and used. From all this, and the various roles in its production, the author gives us clues as to the nature and formation of 'architecture' and of 'culture' at that time. Nor is this a study of what became of Crystal Palace once dismantled. A whole area of newly developing south London took the name Crystal Palace; for at its centre, on the summit of Sydenham Hill, the remains of the Hyde Park building landed and were transformed into something quite different. We remain, inevitably, looking at a subject that is transient, slippery, translucent, immaterial. It seemed to appear, and disappear having transformed those who encountered it, like lightning.
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Sir Joseph Paxton was born on August 3, 1801 in Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire, England, the seventh son of a farming family.
Paxton was educated at the Milton Bryan school.
In 1823 Paxton was employed in the arboretum at Chiswick, the seat of the duke of Devonshire. In 1826 William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, appointed him as the Head Gardener at Chatsworth House, the Devonshire family's large country house in Derbyshire. He remained there for 30 years, cultivating plants, tending and improving the gardens, and designing buildings.
In 1831 he began constructing conservatories at Chatsworth, and used the ridge-and-furrow system of glazed roofs invented by Loudon. As a designer he made his reputation with the elegant ‘Great Stove’ conservatory at Chatsworth then the biggest glass-house in Europe, using sheet-glass. The curved ridge-and-furrow glazed timber roof was carried on arched laminated-timber frames supported on cast-iron columns and buttressed by the side arches over the flanking aisles. Although Decimus Burton was involved in a consultative capacity, the design was essentially Paxton's, who was to turn more and more to designing buildings.
In 1836 he began to erect a grand conservatory 300 ft. in length, which was finished in 1840. He created the village of Edensor, near Chatsworth (1838–1848), and designed Prince's Park, Liverpool (1842–1844), and Birkenhead Park, Merseyside (1843–1847), the last one of the first English public parks, the layout of which was an influence on F. L. Olmsted.
In 1849-1850 Paxton constructed a special conservatory for the large-leaved Victoria regia lily, in which that exotic plant flowered for the first time in England. The structural advances in the lily-house helped in the creation of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition, London (designed and built in 1850–1851), for which Paxton drew on his experiences of greenhouses at Chatsworth.
From 1851 Paxton concentrated on his work as an architect, and he and George Henry Stokes designed Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire (1851–1854), a sumptuous country-house in the Jacobethan style for the Rothschild family. His most interesting design was that for the mansion of Baron James de Rothschild at Ferribres in France (1853–1859), but he designed many other important buildings. In 1854 he was chosen Member of Parliament for Coventry, which he continued to represent in the Liberal interest till his death at Sydenham on June 8, 1865.
Paxton was the author of several contributions to the literature of horticulture, including a Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Dahlia (1838), and a Pocket Botanical Dictionary (1st ed. , 1840). He also edited the Cottage Calendar, the Horticultural Register and the Botanical Magazine.
(Best remembered today for his technically innovative desi...)
(Best remembered today for his technically innovative desi...)
(Crystal Palace exists today as perfectly as it ever did; ...)
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
Horticultural Society, Linnean Society
In 1827 Paxton married Sarah Bown.