Landscape Fountains: The Perfect Decor Accessory to Find Peace
Landscape Fountains: The Perfect Decor Accessory to Find Peace Simply having water in your garden can have a considerable effect on your well-being. The trickling sounds coming from your fountain will be helpful in masking any unpleasant sounds in your surroundings.
How Your Home or Workplace Benefit from an Interior Wall Water Feature
How Your Home or Workplace Benefit from an Interior Wall Water Feature
Your wall element guarantees you a pleasant evening after a long day’s work and help create a tranquil spot where can enjoy watching your favorite sporting event. All those close to an indoor fountain will benefit from it because its sounds emit negative ions, eliminate dust and pollen from the air, and also lend to a calming environment.
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Where did Landscape Fountains Begin?

From the onset, outdoor fountains were simply there to serve as functional elements. People in cities, towns and villages received their drinking water, as well as water to bathe and wash, via aqueducts or springs in the vicinity. Up until the nineteenth, fountains had to be more elevated and closer to a water source, such as aqueducts and reservoirs, in order to take advantage of gravity which fed the fountains. Fountains were not only used as a water source for drinking water, but also to adorn homes and celebrate the designer who created it. The main components used by the Romans to create their fountains were bronze or stone masks, mostly illustrating animals or heroes. During the Middle Ages, Muslim and Moorish garden designers included fountains in their designs to re-create the gardens of paradise. Fountains enjoyed a considerable role in the Gardens of Versailles, all part of French King Louis XIV’s desire to exert his power over nature. Seventeen and 18 century Popes sought to extol their positions by including beautiful baroque-style fountains at the point where restored Roman aqueducts arrived into the city.
Since indoor plumbing became the standard of the day for clean, drinking water, by the end of the 19th century urban fountains were no longer needed for this purpose and they became purely ornamental. Fountains using mechanical pumps instead of gravity allowed fountains to deliver recycled water into living spaces as well as create special water effects.
Nowadays, fountains adorn public spaces and are used to honor individuals or events and fill recreational and entertainment needs.