ABSTRACT
An analysis of Tunnard’s garden designs reveals the various influences that helped to shape them. Within a brief period of four or five years he matured from layouts in the Arts and Crafts style of Percy Cane’s office, as shown in his design for Salcott, Burwood and Ravenhead, to ones that reveal the search for Modernism. Initially this was sought in the English landscape garden, and this was made manifest in his approach to St Ann’s Hill and his scheme for a weekend house in Cobham. But almost immediately, as a result of attending the Paris congress, he experimented with cubist forms in his designs for Walton-on-Thames and Gaulby. By the time of the publication of Gardens in the Modern Landscape in 1938 a range of contemporary Modernist influences from home and abroad in architecture, landscape and garden design, and art can be discerned.
