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The Japanese style garden at Hillwood and its context.
It is unusual to consider gardens in connection with antiques in general and Russian imperial objects in particular, especially a Japanese style garden built after World War II in the United States. Yet Marjorie Merri-weather Post (see p. 82, Pl. I) brought them all together at Hillwood. For her, the European antiques she purchased and the Japanese garden she commissioned shared several basic traits. Both were the exotic products of foreign cultures known for exquisite workmanship and for spirituality in art. Both were the kinds of trophies that helped define the status of the social elite on both sides of the Atlantic in the first half of the twentieth century. ...
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