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Villa Silvio Pellico, Plan of Garden Steps RP/1/10/27/3

Russell Page1958-12

Garden Museum

Garden Museum
London, United Kingdom

A pencil design on tracing paper dated 8 December 1958, marked ‘Villa Silvio Pellico, Avant projet d'escalier.’ It shows both an elevation and plan of the new staircase that Page added to connect the house and upper garden with the lower gardens. The number of steps is indicated (42 in total). Cyprus trees and a bench are also shown. (In the final execution, the delicate balustrade at the top was replaced by a wall that echoes that of the staircase below.)

A classical garden arranged across a variety of levels, Page’s design for Villa Silvio Pellico, an 18th-century villa close to Turin in northern Italy, demonstrates his remarkable ability to perfect his design according to the site.

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