Envisioning the garden : line, scale, distance, form, color, and meaning / Robert Mallet ; translation by Bryan Woy ; drawings by Yves Poinsot.

Main entry:

Mallet, Robert.

Title & Author:

Envisioning the garden : line, scale, distance, form, color, and meaning / Robert Mallet ; translation by Bryan Woy ; drawings by Yves Poinsot.

Publication:

Description:

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Originally published in French as: L'Optique des jardins: elargir l'espace, libérer l'esprit.
Includes index.
Lines and punctuation -- Relative scale -- Distance -- Forms, textures, and lighting -- Colors -- The other senses in action -- The search for a meaning.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

Mallet shows how the basic elements of design-- line, scale, distance, shape, color, and other sensory associations-- can open the viewer's outlook toward board perspectives or, conversely, can lock us up in a cage.

ISBN:

9780393733426 (pbk.)
0393733424 (pbk.)

Subject:

Gardens Design.
Landscape architecture.
Jardins Architecture.
Architecture du paysage.
landscape gardening.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.

Added entries:

Poinsot, Yves.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288863
Call No.: BIB 230830
Status: Available

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