Harold Ainsworth Peto (11 July 1854 – 16 April 1933) was a British landscape architect and garden designer, who worked in Britain and in Provence, France.[1]
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Peto was the son of Sir Samuel Peto, 1st Baronet, of Somerleyton Hall in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
In 1876 he went into partnership with Ernest George and designed houses in Kensington and Chelsea but was forced to leave London due to ill health.[2]
In 1899 Harold purchased and moved to Iford Manor in Wiltshire, having visited it that year with his friend Henry Avray Tipping. Harold re-designed and expanded the garden, trying out new ideas, and housing his collection of artifacts collected during his many travels around the world. The garden at Iford illustrates particularly his Arts and crafts approach to architecture and garden design.
A fine example of Peto's garden architecture can be seen at West Dean College where his 300-foot (91 m) pergola is a highlight of the gardens. Peto and his partner Ernest George also directed an extension of West Dean House for William James, father of poet Edward James who was noted for patronage if the Surrealist art movement. Peto and George created the Oak Room, the old dining room and the staircase, all of which can still be seen within West Dean College.[3]
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References [link]
- ^ Parks and Gardens UK
- ^ A. Stuart Gray, Edwardian Architects, A Biographical Dictionary (1985), ISBN 0-7156-2141-6, p. 284.
- ^ West Dean website
Further reading [link]
- R. Whalley, The Great Edwardian Gardens of Harold Peto From The Archives Of Country Life (2007)
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