Details

Standardized Title:

Sulla panchina. English

Subjects:

Benches.
Garden ornaments and furniture -- History.
Garden ornaments and furniture.

Form/Genre:

History.

Summary:

The bench: a functional object that rarely features at the forefront of our minds, even when we are sitting on one in a garden. And yet benches have surprising significance, regarding the specific places where they operate, and in a more general sense. The bench is more than a convenient sitting point. It is the domain where aesthetics, garden history, architecture, spatiality and subjectivity interfere. The bench acts as a powerful visual machine and regulates the reception of surrounding landscapes to its visitors. By transmitting verbal messages (through inscriptions), citing other benches and being part of a complex walk circuit, by providing rest and inviting its users to discover new aspects of the site, the bench is a highly polysemic element of a garden, which orients and disorients the visitor simultaneously.

Notes:

"Original edition ©Einaudi 2014" -- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.

Contributor:

MacPhail, Miranda, translator.

ISBN:

9781939621795
1939621798

OCLC:

981117179