Henry Inigo Triggs

Garden craft in Europe by Henry Inigo Triggs, title page (1913)

Henry Inigo Triggs (born February 28, 1876 in Chiswick , † April 8, 1923 in Taormina ) was a British architect and garden designer . He specialized in building country houses in the south of England and became the leading expert of his time in the history of formal gardens in the UK.

Life

Triggs attended Godolphin School . He studied at the Royal Academy in London. In 1907 he married Gladys Claire . During his work as an architect, he turned more and more to garden design. He dealt intensively with the formal (geometric) garden in Great Britain, an aspect of British gardening history that had received little attention until then, given the prevailing style of the English landscape garden .

Fonts

• Some architectural works by Inigo Jones . A series of measured drawings ... with descriptive notes ... (London 1901)
• Italy. Illustrated by seventy-three photographic plates ... and numerous sketches ... taken from original surveys and plans specially made by the author, and twenty-eight plates from photographs by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond (London 1906)
• Town planning, past, present and possible ... with 173 illustrations (London 1909)
• Formal gardens in England and Scotland ... A series of illustrations mainly from old examples. With an introduction and descriptive accounts ... 3 parts (London 1902–1912)
• Garden craft in Europe (London 1913)

literature

• Who what who. A companion to Who's who containing the biographies of those who died during the period 1916–1928 . Adam & Charles Black (London 1929, 1054).
• Michael Lancaster : H. Inigo Triggs . In: The Oxford companion to gardens , edited by Patrick Goode and Michael Lancaster . Oxford, New York 2001, ISBN 0-19-860440-8 ; Page 564.

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