Nature Inside: Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior

摘要

In 1870, James Shirley Hibberd, the journalist, gardener, and enthusiastic promoter of growing plants under glass, wrote that 'Conservatories are of many kinds. All the world has heard of a great one at Chatsworth, of a noble one at South Kensington, and of an ugly one in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park. The Crystal Palace is a conservatory, and so is the little glass box of ten or twelve feet square, which hangs like a meat-safe on the rear wall of many a small suburban villa.'1 Nature Inside covers all these and more besides, continuing up to the recent past, and includes a range of residential and commercial interior spaces in continental Europe, North America and beyond, as well as the UK.