Chinoiserie bridges

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Emile de Bruijn

a drawing of a bridge over a river with people in boats on the other side

"This sketch by CW Bampfylde, a friend and neighbour of Henry Hoare, is of the Chinese bridge that once stood at Stourhead."

a white bridge over a small stream in a park

The White Bridge at Worlitz, built in 1772. This is a copy of the geometric Palladian bridge (sometimes called the Chinese bridge) at Stourhead.

a wooden bridge over water with a pagoda in the background and tall grass on either side

Residential Neighborhood

Italian Riviera

Painter And Decorator

Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini - Italian Ways

Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini

an old black and white drawing of a river with trees on the bank, in front of a cloudy sky

View of Kew with the Palladian/Chinese bridge at right, built 1757, via explore-kew-gardens.net

a lake with trees and a bridge in the distance, surrounded by greenery on both sides

Garden Architecture

Support System

Structural Engineering

Favorite Places

Mann Williams // Portfolio // Special Projects/Research // National Trust - The Chinese Bridge, Stourhead, Stourhead Estate, Wiltshire

Trompe l'oeil banner across an arm of the lake at Stourhead, constructed by Mann Williams for the National Trust to give an idea of what the 'Chinese Bridge' built there in 1749 (and dismantled 1798) looked like.

an old drawing of a lake with trees in the background and water below it,

Victoria And Albert Museum

Drawings

The Chinese Bridge, Stourhead. | Bampfylde, Coplestone Warre | V&A Explore The Collections

The Chinese Bridge, Stourhead, by Copleston Warre Bampfylde, 1770s (originally constructed 1749, dismantled 1798), in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, another example of the Palladian single-span bridge design interpreted as 'Chinese'.

a wooden bridge over a small pond surrounded by greenery and trees in the background

Chinoiserie bridge, late twentieth century, at Woolbeding, West Sussex

a bathroom with a black sink and leopard print wallpaper on the walls next to a mirror

Florence de Dampierre on Walls

Wall painting of Chinese/Palladian bridge by Diana Westring in loo designed by Thomas Beeton, via The Peak of Chic®

an old wooden bridge in the middle of a park with a tower in the background

Chinese Bridge, Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, originally constructed c. 1752 - with x-shaped balustrade braces which were often interpreted as Chinese but which derive from a Palladio bridge design

an old drawing of a bridge that has been constructed in the style of a boat

Students have a chance to get their hands dirty

Design for bridge from William Halfpenny's Improvements in Architecture and Carpentry (1754), used to construct a 'Chinese Bridge' at Croome Court, Worcestershire

an old drawing of a bridge with people on it

Chinoiserie bridge with pagoda, St James's Park, London, 1815

Nature

Rickety Bridge

London Houses

Countries Of The World

The London

London Uk

Garden Arch

Chinese Bridge, Painshill, Surrey - not strictly Chinese in design, but described as such as early as 1763

an old painting with trees and people in it

Ditchley Park

Arch Bridge

Arch

View of Ditchley Park with single-arch bridge, late 1740s, based on a Palladian design that was sometimes seen as 'Chinese'