Roy M Strong

The Laskett: The Story of a Garden

The Laskett isan intimate history of the garden Roy Strong made with his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman—the largest formal garden created in the country since 1945.This personal book is the tale of a marriage as much as the tale of a garden, as into the Laskett they etched their own biographies, includi...

Art and Power

A work of great learning and skilful synthesis, beautifully illustrated. SUNDAY TIMES The spectacular festivals mounted by the princes of the Renaissance were both a marriage of the arts and a complex and subtle expression of political theory. From the Renaissance festivals ballet, opera and even th...

Feast: A History of Grand Eating

Sharing a grand meal has always been a complex social event. Feasts have been used to celebrate significant occasions, to parade rank and hierarchy, and to flatter and influence people. There has always been a theatrical element to the feast as well-from the nude dancers who entertained dinner guest...

A Country Life: At Home in the English Countryside

Sir Roy Strong and his wife, the designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, have lived in the country for nearly thirty years. In 1987 he was asked to write an occasional column reflecting this quintessentially English way of life for the prestigious magazine A Country Life. This charming book brings these popu...

Remaking a Garden: The Laskett Gardens Transformed

The garden at the Laskett in Herefordshire is always described as the largest formal garden laid out in Britain since the war and one of most important and interesting gardens of the second half of the twentieth century. It was made by Roy Strong and his wife, theatre designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, ...

Roy Strong: Self-Portrait as a Young Man

For nearly half a century, Roy Strong has been a prominent presence in Britain’s art world. Yet little is known about his life before the Swinging Sixties, when, at the age of thirty-one, he came on the scene as the revolutionary young director of London’s National Portrait Gallery.In this book, Str...

Small Period Gardens

People are becoming as conscious of historical style in gardening as they are in interior decoration. In this book, Roy Strong looks at the history of gardening from the point of view of recreating a small garden in a particular style. The illustrations include paintings, prints and photographs.

Creating Small Gardens

"...suggestions for making innovative use of limited space...Looking for ideas for a rooftop container garden? How about planting scheme whereby foliage takes center stage in one area, but flowers reign in the opposite border?...Curl up with Strong's latest...it is bound to brighten the cloudiest da...

Coronation : From the 8th to the 21st Century

Feast: A History of Grand Eating

Beaton: Portraits

Tudor and Jacobean Portraits / Vol I, Text/ Vol Ii, Plates

A Small Garden Designer's Handbook

Henry, Prince of Wales, and England's Lost Renaissance

The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry

Britannia Triumphans: Inigo Jones, Rubens and Whitehall Palace