Christopher Tunnard (1910, Victoria, British Columbia — 1979) was an Canadian-born landscape architect, garden designer and author of Gardens in the Modern Landscape (1938). He was the cousin of the British surrealist artist John Tunnard (1900-1971).
Born and educated in Canada, where his Lincolnshire-born father had moved as a young man, in 1929 Tunnard went to England and obtained a Diploma from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1930.
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Christopher Tunnard (1910, Victoria, British Columbia — 1979) was an Canadian-born landscape architect, garden designer and author of Gardens in the Modern Landscape (1938). He was the cousin of the British surrealist artist John Tunnard (1900-1971).
Born and educated in Canada, where his Lincolnshire-born father had moved as a young man, in 1929 Tunnard went to England and obtained a Diploma from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1930.
From 1932-1935 he worked as a garden designer for Percy Cane, an exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement. He then embarked on a European tour, becoming interested in avant-garde art and architecture. In 1936, he started his own practice for landscape architecture in London.
His noted landscape projects include his landscape architecture for Serge Chermayeff's house Bentley Wood at Halland, Sussex,; and for his modification of existing 18th century gardens at the circular Art Deco St Ann's Hill House in Chertsey designed by Raymond McGrath, where...
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