Chiswick House

Chiswick House is a villa of style palladien located with Chiswick, a district of London in the west of this city.

The villa belonged to Richard Boyle, 3ère count de Burlington, more known under the name of Lord Burlington, celebrates architect whose taste and refinement were often rented. The count architect designs and builds the villa in 1726 and associates the services of William Kent () for the realization of the garden.

The villa, surmounted of an octagonal cupola, is inspired by that of Andrea Palladio located close to Vicence in Venezia, the Villa Capra known as Rotonda and, at the same time, is a perfect example of the architecture of the 18th century, with its gantry with columns, its ceilings decorated with frescos. It differs however from the Capra villa by three treatments different from the four frontages (former, posterior and the two side ones) instead of a perfect symmetry adopted for each one of those of the villa of Vicence. It has a superb collection of paintings and a furniture palladien.

Widower with a girl, Charlotte Elisabeth, and Chiswick House not being his only residence, the count de Burlington did not test the need to install interior installations which one normally finds in this type of villa. Nevertheless, it was connected to other buildings intended to shelter additional parts and the district of the servants.

With the death of Charlotte Elisabeth, in the Years 1750, Devonshire, the family of her husband William Cavendish, inherit the land and buildings. Having other residences, they live the villa little but, in order to increase it, they add to it two small wings, warts which were destroyed since.

Victor Cavendish, the 9th duke of Devonshire, sells Chiswick House with the municipality of Brentford () in 1929. The villa and its gardens are placed under the aegis of the English Heritage.

Italian garden

The remainders of the original Italian gardens occupy a part open to north of the villa.

The most remarkable specimens of the gasolines present are, into different, of splendid Cédres of Lebanon.

The presence of Mediterranean species, Cypress, Cane-apple bush, Cherry-laurel and the geometrical provision of the Italian garden offers a complete contrast with the remainder of the landscape design of the field.

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