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1910–1979 Canada

Arthur Coney Tunnard (published as Christopher Tunnard, July 7, 1910 – February 13, 1979) was a Canadian-born landscape architect, garden designer, city-planner, and author of essays and books. Leaving Canada in 1929, he was educated and worked in England from 1929 to 1939, emigrated to the United States in 1939, and served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.

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The garden has always been subject to two main influences—the outer influence from the landscape and the inner from the house.

It was Andrew Mellon who spurred the design of the Triangle, bringing Edward H. Bennett from Chicago to plan his last great triumph in the late 1920s.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christopher Tunnard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.