Overview

This entertaining and lovely book-the first to focus solely on follies and other garden buildings in Ireland-re-creates in word and image the wonder of these picturesque and fanciful architectural oddities. ""A work of sustained scholarship and relish for the subject.""-Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement ""A feast of ephemeral architectural embellishment.""-House and Garden ""[A] pioneering book. . . . It is beautifully designed and the well researched text is accompanied by excellent measured drawings and wonderful photographs. The volume is a delight to peruse, a veritable encyclopedia of the extraordinary and the fantastic.""-Roger Stalley, The Irish Times ""A major achievement.""-Deborah Singmaster, Architects' Journal

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James Howley's pioneering book is based on strenuous fieldwork, carried out over many years. The volume is a delight to peruse, a veritable encyclopaedia of the extraordinary and the fantastic. Roger Stalley, The Irish Times

""James Howley's pioneering book is based on strenuous fieldwork, carried out over many years. The volume is a delight to peruse, a veritable encyclopaedia of the extraordinary and the fantastic."" Roger Stalley, The Irish Times

Author Information

James Howley is from Belfast. He has a private architectural practice in London and has also taught at several schools of architecture in England.

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