It intrigues me that we accept that styles apply within such limited contexts. For example there are plenty of architectural styles that have no equivalent in literature or art, I am not sure that I could point out any rococo literature, or art deco or art nouveau literature, much less Bauhaus literature. There are exceptions, I think that Modernist and Post Modern both apply within architecture and literature, though I am not sure that they do so with a great deal of rigour.
It would be nice to design relatively functional items in architectural or art history styles, for example the Bauhaus garden of geometric shapes and plain expanses, I suspect that large amounts of topiary would be required. Or the Mannerist pepper grinder, bent double demonstrating the nature of twisting.
There is plenty of topiary in my garden already, but it is mainly box hedging so it certainly does not grow very quickly. I would like to shape it into the shapes of mouldings, bull nosed ogees, egg and darts and ornamental finials. The notion of replicating wooden mouldings in topiary seems to me to be an entirely sensible pursuit.
