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title: A love letter to architectural follies
url: https://www.dwell.com/article/a-love-letter-to-architectural-follies-de6131a4
edition: /collider/2025-10-07/index.edition.md
position: 6
date: 2025-10-07
source: mailchimp
original: https://mailchi.mp/pathwright/collider-october-7-25
retrieved: 2026-11-09
visibility: public
author: /people/justin-hall.person.md
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description: 🏛️ A love letter to architectural follies. “In the 18th and 19th centuries, follies were popular landscape design features at French and English gardens and estates—particularly those owned by wealthy eccentrics or those with ‘sir’ in front of their names. (Often, there was overlap.)”
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[![Now that’s an architectural folly](./assets/06-a-love-letter-to-architectural-follies.webp)](https://www.dwell.com/article/a-love-letter-to-architectural-follies-de6131a4)

*Now that’s an architectural folly*

🏛️ **[A love letter to architectural follies.](https://www.dwell.com/article/a-love-letter-to-architectural-follies-de6131a4)** “In the 18th and 19th centuries, follies were popular landscape design features at French and English gardens and estates—particularly those owned by wealthy eccentrics or those with ‘sir’ in front of their names. (Often, there was overlap.)”