This book presents fifty of Andrew Zega and Bernd H. Dams's expert watercolour illustrations, focusing on Chinoiserie pavilions.Thirty-six of the works delve into the past, reconstructing exceptional historical structures from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, with a predominately French style. The remaining works are the authors' original designs, beautifully detailed works inspired by these exotic and whimsical structures. A comprehensive illustrated introductory essay helps to put these structures in context, with a detailed history of Chinoiserie style in the West. Zega and Dams are known for their authoritative restitutions of historic buildings, rendered in a highly realistic watercolour technique that has become their trademark. The present volume is among the results of more than a decade of study of historic European and American architecture and garden ornament. As this book reveals, their complementary training and skills as architects, historians, watercolorists, and writers ensures that their investigative projects provide interpretive discovery and often-revelatory drawings of historic structures.