Oliver Messel
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Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel was an English artist and one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century.
Oliver Messel by Gordon Anthony, 1937
Nymans
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Nymans is an English garden to the south of the village of Handcross, and in the civil parish of Slaugham in West Sussex, England. The garden was developed, starting in the late nineteenth century, by
Oliver Messel
…home and one of the starting points for his Caribbean architectural work. Messel died in Barbados in 1978. His and Riis-Hansen's ashes are together at Nymans, the Messel family home in West Sussex; in 2024 the National Trust, which now owns Nymans, added Riis-Hansen's name to the memorial there. Castle…
Marginally hardy exotics thrive in Nymans' sheltered microclimate
The southern frontage of Nymans in 1932 before the fire and subsequent ruin
The southern frontage today. The ruined house remains a garden feature.
Mixed borders of perennials and annuals in midsummer