{"id":1285,"date":"2008-09-14T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2008-09-14T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T07:10:00","slug":"mahratta-house-garden-open-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"Mahratta House &#038; garden open day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">I headed off to this <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/archives\/date-taken\/2008\/09\/14\/\">Art Deco<\/a> house. The open day was held by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hht.net.au\/\">Historic Houses Trust.<\/a> I have to say, that the garden was good and the house somewhat of a disappointment in that it was very simple. I expected extravagance for this era.<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Mahratta&#8217; is one of Sydney&#8217;s finest examples of an Art Deco home and the Paul Sorensen designed gardens are amongst his most beautiful.<br \/>\nOnce every few years this magnificent private property is opened to the community. You are invited to a rare chance to wander around the 1.6 hectares of gardens which include rare exotic and native Australian plants, laid out by the famous Danish landscape architect Paul Sorensen.<br \/>\nThese gardens are lovingly cared for primarily on a voluntary basis by the members of the School of Philosophy, the current owners and stewards of this historic home, and the gardens have never looked better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Mahratta  House &amp; garden open day&#8221; by yewenyi <a href=\"http:\/\/6v8.gamboni.org\/Flickr-Easy-Photo-Post.html\">[?]<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/2878720652\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3166\/2878720652_cde62a2719.jpg\" alt=\"Mahratta  House &amp; garden open day\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/2877884387\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3242\/2877884387_8d27f9cbb6_s.jpg\" alt=\"Mahratta  House &amp; garden open day\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/2877880247\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3221\/2877880247_080d6e6c11_s.jpg\" alt=\"Mahratta  House &amp; garden open day\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/2878715770\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3015\/2878715770_49a0558117_s.jpg\" alt=\"Mahratta  House &amp; garden open day\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/2877880947\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3206\/2877880947_a6583b4ef5_s.jpg\" alt=\"Mahratta  House &amp; garden open day\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/2878718700\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3260\/2878718700_7c2f94059b_s.jpg\" alt=\"Mahratta  House &amp; garden open day\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/2877883339\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3024\/2877883339_18538e6dde_s.jpg\" alt=\"Mahratta  House &amp; garden open day\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I headed off to this Art Deco house. The open day was held by the Historic Houses Trust. I have[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1699,1712,2193,3569],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photgrapy","tag-hht","tag-historic","tag-mahratta","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}