Humphry Repton’s “Red Book” plans come to life in the short film “A Generous Deceit”
Landscape designer Humphry Repton’s 1810 “Red Book” for Armley House. The book is the subject of a new short film narrated by Jeremy Irons. By Adrian Higgins Adrian Higgins Gardening columnist Email Bio Follow May 9 at 1:45 PM Humphry Repton may not have been the greatest landscape designer in history, but he was surely one of the smoothest.
Repton was famous for producing before-and-after scenes using flaps. The flap here is down and shows an existing entrance to Armley House. In the Red Books, the effect was — and remains — irresistible. The visuals are effective and the transformation immediate. Now Repton’s Red Books have been brought to animated life in an eight-minute film, based on his 1810 design for Armley House, the property of industrialist Benjamin Gott on the outskirts of the northern city of Leeds. Gott’s house sat on a ridge between two quintessential features of the early industrial age, a hulking textile mill and a canal. The mill was Gott’s, and at the time was the largest gaslit factory in Europe.
The Armley House volume was one of four Red Books in the collection of the late bibliophile Rachel “Bunny” Mellon of Upperville, Va., and was provided for the project by the nonprofit organization she founded, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, which also financed the film. There was less money in Repton’s approach, but it allowed him to build a prolific body of work. He would come to a property for a few days, and a couple of months later, the patron would receive the Red Book, paying handsomely for the visit and the book.
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