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print versionThe Indian Express, January 31, 2023
Written by Narayani Gupta
Place names are the stuff of history. Some recall forgotten geographies, others are tributes to individuals who have been associated with the place. Landscapes bear the signature of the artist/architect/designer
Two months ago, the Garden Museum in London held an exhibition of the paintings of Constance Villiers-Stuart (1877–1966), called “Earthly Delights”. In 1913, Villiers-Stuart had published a small and beautifully evocative book, The Gardens of the Great Mughals, which inspired the Town-Planning Committee (appointed in 1912) to introduce terraces and water-bodies borrowed from Mughal gardens in Kashmir in the garden of the Viceroy’s House. Horticulture innovations or borrowed ideas are traditionally acknowledged, as seen in “Japanese”/“ [ . . . ]
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