Kate Felus
Kate Felus (born 1971) is a designed-landscape historian. She studied at University of Warwick and University of Bristol. Her specialist subject area is the social history of 18th-century gardens and their buildings.
From 1996 to 2001 Kate was Garden Historian at Stowe, the 18th-century landscape garden, where the National Trust is undertaking a massive restoration programme begun in 1990. Her role included being part of the Stowe Restoration Team, providing specialist research to aid with the production of a series of Conservation Plans that addressed the individual character areas within the formal gardens and wider parkland. The historic research directly influenced and guided a programme of archaeological investigations that were critical to ensuring that the restoration of each character area was accurate and appropriate.
She was a trustee of Hestercombe Gardens surrounding Hestercombe House and has also been involved with buildings conservation both at Stowe and as Project Co-ordinator for the National Trust’s first restoration of a Modernist building, the Erno Goldfinger House at 2 Willow Road, Hampstead.
Recent publications on garden conservation have discussed the landscapes of Blenheim Palace,[1] Dunster Castle, Croome Court and Westbury Court.[2] Her doctoral thesis (University of Bristol, 2009) is entitled "Beautiful objects and agreeable retreats: Uses of Garden Buildings in the designed landscape in 18th-century England".
She is the partner of British sculptor Jon Edgar. She has two sons.
References
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- ↑ "Looking beyond the Boundaries: Seeing Parks and Gardens in their Wider Landscape – Understanding and Protection", in Giardini Contesto Paesaggio Sistemi Giardini e Architetture Vegetali nel Paesaggio… ed. by L. Pelessetti & L. Scazzosi, (Florence, 2005) ISBN 978-88-222-5483-2]
Publications
- 'The Furniture of Erno Goldfinger at 2 Willow Road', Apollo, Vol CXLIII No. 410 (new series) (April, 1996) ISSN 00036356
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- ‘Boats and Boating in the Eighteenth Century Landscape’, Garden History, (2006) Vol 34, No. 1. ISSN 03071243
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- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Kate Felus - Charles Hamilton's Buildings: Speculation on the Social Use of Painshill Park pp. 41–50 ISSN 0262-558X
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Kate Felus - Using the Pleasure Grounds; Their social History pp. 101–111 ISSN 0262-558X
External links
- Hestercombe Gardens website
- website giving more information on Kate Felus
- portrait head of Kate Felus, 2003
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