Pleasure Pavilions and Follies H Dams

Pleasure Pavilions and Follies in the garden by B H Dams and A Zega in hardback with original dust jacket. 190 pages. The charming garden follies of pre-Revolutionary France, spanning 150 years and the reigns of four monarchs, are today known almost exclusively to scholars. Imaginative creations of France's greatest architects and eloquent symbols of their era, they were built for the pleasure of the Bourbon kings and their courts. Many of these buildings have been destroyed or severely altered and the only records that survive are the drawings, engravings, architectural plans, and more