Harold Peto

Harold Ainsworth Peto ( born July 11, 1854 in 12 Palace Gardens, Westminster, London, † April 16, 1933 at Iford Manor, Wiltshire ) was an English architect and garden designer.

Life

His father was the lord of the manor, deputies and speculator Sir Samuel Morton Peto (1809-1889) from Somerleyton Hall, Lowestoft, Suffolk, who went bankrupt in 1866 by speculation in railway construction, his mother Sarah Ainsworth ( 1821-1892 ), his father's second wife was the daughter of a textile manufacturer. Peto was the sixth of ten children. Peto spent his youth in Somerleyton Hall, the estate of his father with large, typical Victorian gardens, until it had to be sold in 1863 to Sir Francis Crossley. From 1869 to 1871 he attended the private Harrow School. Then he made at J. Clements in Lowestoft an apprenticeship as a builder. In 1874 he joined the London firm of architects Karslake and Mortimer. 1871-1892 he was a partner of Ernest George. Among her pupils were Guy Dauber, Herbert Baker and Edwin Lutyens. After dissolution of the partnership in 1892 he moved to Kent, in 1896 in the near Salisbury in Wiltshire. He traveled to continental Europe, to Egypt ( 1892-93 ), Sicily 1895 and 1898 in the Far East. He was allowed 15 years no longer practice in the UK and therefore often worked for British emigrants and summer guests on the French Riviera.

In 1899 he toured with his friend Avray Tipping Iford Manor, an Elizabethan manor house near Bradford-on -Avon. He bought it and designed the garden in Italian style. However, there was also a small Japanese garden. The garden is decorated with numerous architectural fragments, statues, sarcophagi and Renaissance garden ornaments, which he had bought up in Italy. He should live up to his death here.

After 1918, he designed no more gardens. He died unmarried and was buried in Chedington in Dorset.

Work

  • Bridge House, Weybridge, Surrey, in the late 1890s, owner Henry Seymour Trower ( 1843-1912 )
  • Buscott Park, Oxon, mansion of the 18th century, 1904
  • Easton Lodge, Essex, 1902-1903, Countess of Warwick
  • Hartham Park, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, 1903, owners John Dickson Poynder MP
  • Iford Manor, Frome Valley, Wiltshire, protected monument today
  • Ilnacullin, Garinish, Ireland
  • Isola Bella, Californie in Cannes, owner André van, 1909. Garden Only
  • Villa Maryland, Alpes -Maritimes, France, 1904, owner Arthur Wilson, in the Renaissance style and formal garden
  • Villa Rosemary, French Riviera, 1908, owner Arthur Cohen, 1 ha, in the style of the italian renaissance
  • Villa Sylvia, Cap St. Jean Ferrat, 1902, owner Ralph Curtis. It is regarded as the " most English " by Peto's gardens
  • Wayford Manor, Somerset, manor house from the 13th century
  • West Dean, Sussex

Style

Peto was both the Neo - Classicism ( neo- Italian School ) as well as the Arts and Crafts Movement, the English version of Art Nouveau connected. He believed that the house and garden matched to the surrounding landscape and should match each other. For instance, he preferred a local stone, if he does not resorted to marble.

He designed usually not only the buildings but also furniture and planting of flower beds. He admired among others, the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli and built numerous buildings and gardens in the style of the Italian Renaissance. Its gardens often contained stairways, loggias and colonnades in Italian style. In the design of the villa Rosemary he imitated elements from the Generalife. Plants he used mainly as an ornament. He believed that ancient buildings and ruins managed a connection to the past that could not be achieved solely by plants. At the Villa Maryland, he designed while a " Roman Garden ", but this was not an attempt an antique garden empathize, but merely a pastiche with a garden shed in the form of a small temple with Ionic columns and portrait heads in antikisierendem style, which were placed on columns. Gardens should be a balanced mix of stone architectural elements and plants.

In the Isola Bella Peto put a garden shed and a wide flight of steps in order to connect the house and garden, in Buscot Park a series of formal ponds. A lily pond is an important design element in Iford.

Most gardens Petos are held in Italian or in general " Mediterranean " style, combined the Italian, Spanish and of course English elements or adapting to the English taste. Peto, however, was also very impressed by Japanese gardens - he had visited the country in 1898, but then decided not to undertake overseas travel more. The garden of Bridge House contained a Japanese tea house.

Peto's influence was stronger than in England, where he quickly fell into disuse and is only discovered gradually in France.

Publications

  • The boke of Iford, compiled by me, Harold A. Peto from all the sources available in 1917 ( historical introduction by Robin Whalley ). Marlborough, Libanus, 1994? ISBN 0948021306th
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