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Article: Gardening: Try a drop of the hard stuff; Hannah Stephenson looks at using concrete to achieve a modernist feel.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2004
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CONCRETE has a special place in the heart of garden designer and historian Jane Owen, who has teamed up with Diarmuid Gavin to present Gardens Through Time, a TV series looking at stunning period gardens.
Owen's favourite era is the modern period, when concrete came into its own and became an ideal material for the fluid shapes favoured by a new generation of designers.
``The modern period is totally fascinating for me. When it was first introduced into this country by Christopher Tunnard in the 1930s he was introducing this very stark Bauhaus form of the modern.
``This was at the same time as the Vita Sackville-West gardens at Sissinghurst.
``On one hand ...