Antique Statues,
Antique Carvings, Antique Sculptures and Antique Garden Arts by
WoodRoyal® Studio Thailand
Antique Statues: antique garden
statues. Traditional garden statues of warriors, Buddhist and Hindu
Gods have been used in Asian garden design for over 5,000 years and
are still available from our garden studio located in Thailand >>
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Antique
garden statues landscape and garden product catalog. There is a long
tradition of placing statues out of doors, often 'tasteful female
statues'. In addition to the pleasure that people have always taken
in looking at the beauty of the human form, there seems to have been
a feeling that naturalistic statues harmonize with the beauty of
nature. The following poses are characteristic: sculpture of young
girls, glimpsed through the undergrowth as when Actaeon saw Diana
and her handmaids washing, and was turned into a stag for his
impudence, sculptures of warriors, kings and images from mythology,
antique statues of bronzed and athletic young men, sculpture of
young lovers, more often delighting in each other's company than
engaged in overtly sexual activity, antique statues of tragic and
lonely figures, beautiful but unappreciated, statues hearty earth
mothers, rejoicing in their feminity or sculptural fountains with
droplets of water simulating passion
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Garden Design and Garden Designers. As a
profession, an advantage which garden design enjoys, compared to
landscape architecture, is that everyone knows what is involved:
design skill and garden knowledge. The disadvantage from which
garden design suffers is that too much work has been done by people
with far more garden knowledge than design talent. As the name
should always remind us, it is necessary to have both. There is also
a tendency for garden design firms to have their roots in the
construction business. The truth of the matter is that the making of
a good garden requires a partnership between the client, the builder
and the designer. If one person has all these abilities, fine. If
they don't, help is necessary. For example, if you are the client
and gardener, employ a design consultant. If you are the client and
designer, employ a garden maker. And if you are the designer and
builder, you must draw a client into the design process >>
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If, as we recommend, you become involved
with the design, the first stage should be a design meeting. Pay for
the designer's time, as you would pay for any professional work, but
explain in advance that you would like to have a preliminary concept
drawing. This could be done during the meeting or the designer may
want to make a charge for additional time in preparing the
presentation drawing. Then decide what aspects of the work you can
do yourself and what aspects you would like to have help with. The
latter might be a compositional idea ('a design'), a planting plan,
a construction plan, or help with a garden building. As the work
proceeds, you can do some things yourself and take further garden
design advice on aspects of the project >>
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