{"id":5970,"date":"2010-11-25T03:27:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T03:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2010-11-25T03:27:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T03:27:37","slug":"charles-platt-pools-of-inspiration-and-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/charles-platt-pools-of-inspiration-and-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Platt: Pools of inspiration and transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ralph-Pulitzer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ralph-Pulitzer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"672\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ralph-Pulitzer.jpg 469w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ralph-Pulitzer-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The swimming pool and bathhouse at Manhassat Long Island by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/lweb\/indiv\/avery\/da\/platt.html\">architect and landscape architect Charles Platt <\/a>demonstrates the transformation in design thinking from European ideas that slowly began to characterise the design approach in the United States. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldlongisland.com\/2010\/05\/manor-house-gardens.html\">Manor House garden <\/a>is remarkable for illustrating the genesis of this transformation in thinking with the &#8216;before&#8217; garden centred on a fountain and the &#8216;after&#8217; garden centred on the pool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenjot.com\/garden\/view\/39\/Gwinn-Estate\">Gwinn<\/a>, for which Platt contributed the architecture and collaborated with Ellen Biddle Shipman Warren Manning on the landscape contributes to the transformation of the Italian villa as inspiration to an American sensibility. There are particular elements<\/a> of the garden design on the shores of lake Erie which introduce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalh.org\/books\/karsongfp.html\">a genius for place <\/a> into the American oeuvre, and are more suggestive of the quintessentially casual out-of-doors leisure lifestyle.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The swimming pool and bathhouse at Manhassat Long Island by architect and landscape architect Charles Platt demonstrates the transformation in design thinking from European ideas that slowly began to characterise the design approach in the United States. The Manor House garden is remarkable for illustrating the genesis of this transformation in thinking with the &#8216;before&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,11,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}