A garden in Venice
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An account by Frederic Eden - Gertrude Jekyll's brother-in-law and Sir Anthony Eden's great uncle - of a garden that he acquired, planted and cultivated around the turn of the 20th century. First published by "Country Life" in 1903, and reissued in France in 2002, this book is illustrated with woodcuts in the style of and period photographs, and tells the story of the(...)
A garden in Venice
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An account by Frederic Eden - Gertrude Jekyll's brother-in-law and Sir Anthony Eden's great uncle - of a garden that he acquired, planted and cultivated around the turn of the 20th century. First published by "Country Life" in 1903, and reissued in France in 2002, this book is illustrated with woodcuts in the style of and period photographs, and tells the story of the creation of an English garden in the most improbable site imaginable on the Giudecca. The garden became, unsurprisingly, a resort of poets and aesthetes, and, having been given to the ex-queen of Aspasia and Yugoslavia, ended up as the property of the equally mad Austrian artist Hundertwasser. Now a "monumento nazionale", the Giardino Eden is still there, but closed to the public until funds for its restoration become available. Postface by Marie-Thérèse Weal.
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Little Sparta, Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden in the Pentland Hills of Scotland, is recognized as one of Europe important contemporary art work. Photographs by Andrew Lawson.
Little Sparta : the garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Little Sparta, Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden in the Pentland Hills of Scotland, is recognized as one of Europe important contemporary art work. Photographs by Andrew Lawson.
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In this lavishly illustrated volume, Robin Karson traces the development of a distinctly American style of landscape design through an analysis of seven country places created by some of the nation's most talented landscape practitioners. In the mid-nineteenth century Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of New York's Central Park, developed an approach to landscape(...)
A genius for place: American landscapes of the country place era
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In this lavishly illustrated volume, Robin Karson traces the development of a distinctly American style of landscape design through an analysis of seven country places created by some of the nation's most talented landscape practitioners. In the mid-nineteenth century Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of New York's Central Park, developed an approach to landscape design based on the principles of the English Picturesque which also emphasized a specifically American experience of nature and scenery. After Olmsted's retirement in 1897, these precepts continued to ground a new generation of American landscape architects through the next four decades, a period known as the “country place era,” a time of rapid economic, social, and cultural change. The chapters in this book trace a progression in the period from the naturalistic wild gardens of Warren Manning to the mysterious “Prairie style” landscapes of Jens Jensen to the proto-modernist gardens of Fletcher Steele. Other practitioners cov ered are Charles Platt, Ellen Biddle Shipman, Beatrix Farrand, Marian Coffin, and Lockwood de Forest Jr. The projects profiled follow a broad geographic arc, from Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to Santa Barbara, California. All seven landscapes are now open to visitors.
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Vertical Gardens
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Bringing nature into urban environments has always been a challenge; one of the most spectacular solutions to this problem is the vertical garden. Far more than just an unusual decoration attached to a wall, these gardens are an exciting means of bringing life and greenery to a bleak courtyard, a gray city street or a cold modern building. Vertical gardens is the first(...)
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décembre 2007, London
Vertical Gardens
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Bringing nature into urban environments has always been a challenge; one of the most spectacular solutions to this problem is the vertical garden. Far more than just an unusual decoration attached to a wall, these gardens are an exciting means of bringing life and greenery to a bleak courtyard, a gray city street or a cold modern building. Vertical gardens is the first publication to present a collection of the most important examples of this emrging trend.
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Ce livre est la suite logique de L'Art du Jardin tropical. Depuis de parution de ce premier opus tropical, un paysagisme d'un nouveau style est apparu au sein de l'aire tropicale, plus particuli�rement dans sa partie asiatique, o� Made Wijaya vit et travaille. Jardins tropicaux contemporains se fait l'�cho de cette nouvelle vague et expose ses racines historiques(...)
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novembre 2007, Paris
Jardins tropicaux comtemporains
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Ce livre est la suite logique de L'Art du Jardin tropical. Depuis de parution de ce premier opus tropical, un paysagisme d'un nouveau style est apparu au sein de l'aire tropicale, plus particuli�rement dans sa partie asiatique, o� Made Wijaya vit et travaille. Jardins tropicaux contemporains se fait l'�cho de cette nouvelle vague et expose ses racines historiques et g�ographiques. L'auteur d�crit en d�tail les philosophies des plus grands paysagistes tropicaux du XXe si�cle, qu'il illustre � l'aide de splendides photographies. Il diss�que �galement les diff�rents styles, hawa�en, New Asia ou tropical-romantique, qui ont pr�sid�, ces derni�res ann�es, � la r�alisation de jardins tropicaux � travers le monde. Un chapitre entier est consacr� aux principes de composition d'un jardin tropical moderne � travers une description des �l�ments qui le composent, parmi lesquels mat�riaux, plantes, �l�ments du mobilier et objets d'art. Aujourd'hui, Made Wijaya parcourt le monde tropical en tous ses afin de donner forme � ses r�ves. Au cours des vingt cinq derni�res ann�es, il a patiemment explor� les plus beaux jardins du monde tropical et interrog� quelques uns de leurs cr�ateurs.
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Louis de Carmontelle was an eighteenth-century French draftsman, painter, and garden designer. Beginning in 1783 he painted a series of panoramas on translucent paper that became a popular source of entertainment at royal court gatherings. These rolled-up transparencies (rouleaux transparents)were cranked through a backlit viewing box, and the "moving pictures" were(...)
Carmontelle's Landscape Transparencies : Cinema of the Enlightenment
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Louis de Carmontelle was an eighteenth-century French draftsman, painter, and garden designer. Beginning in 1783 he painted a series of panoramas on translucent paper that became a popular source of entertainment at royal court gatherings. These rolled-up transparencies (rouleaux transparents)were cranked through a backlit viewing box, and the "moving pictures" were accompanied by live storytelling that gave spectators the experience of journeying through beautiful landscapes. Presented chronologically, the transparencies show the evolution of eighteenth-century fashions and customs. The author re-creates the original viewing experience by leading the reader through a series of panoramic scenes, and, in the process, offers a lively analysis of eighteenth-century social life. Drawn from both museum and private collections, the charming illustrations include gatefolds showing the full extent of the J. Paul Getty Museum's Figures Walking in a Parkland as well as many exquisite details of elegant outdoor gatherings and verdant parklands. The book presents all of Carmontelle's extant transparencies, some of which survive only in fragments and a number of which have never been published.
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"Botanic gardens : a living history" is an extensive and practical guide to the world’s foremost botanic gardens. This book unearths the fascinating history of the botanic garden, from the first modern gardens founded in Northern Italy, to the technological achievements of contemporary gardens.
Botanic gardens : a living history
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"Botanic gardens : a living history" is an extensive and practical guide to the world’s foremost botanic gardens. This book unearths the fascinating history of the botanic garden, from the first modern gardens founded in Northern Italy, to the technological achievements of contemporary gardens.
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Between 1945 and 1965 the practice of Robert Royston designed a series of parks in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using forms inspired by twentieth-century avant-garde painting and sculpture he adroitly shaped these landscapes as recreational opportunities for generations to come. Comprehensively illustrated the book provides new insights into Royston's exploration of the(...)
Modern public gardens: Robert Royston and the suburban park
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Between 1945 and 1965 the practice of Robert Royston designed a series of parks in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using forms inspired by twentieth-century avant-garde painting and sculpture he adroitly shaped these landscapes as recreational opportunities for generations to come. Comprehensively illustrated the book provides new insights into Royston's exploration of the landscape form as well as contributing more generally to the sociological understanding of post-war suburbia.
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"This other Eden" is a captivating narrative of seven great gardens, beautiful canvases that represent not just pleasure grounds but a country's evolution. Showpieces of grand design, they are also barometers of social change; lasting reflections of intellectual endeavour, of religion and philosophy, science and technology, art and literature, from Robert Cecil's garden(...)
This other Eden : seven great gardens and 300 years of English history
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"This other Eden" is a captivating narrative of seven great gardens, beautiful canvases that represent not just pleasure grounds but a country's evolution. Showpieces of grand design, they are also barometers of social change; lasting reflections of intellectual endeavour, of religion and philosophy, science and technology, art and literature, from Robert Cecil's garden at Hatfield House, conceived by the famous botanist and plant-collector John Tradescant, who travelled widely to seek out unusual specimens, to Capability Brown, who 'improved' upon nature to create the archetypal English parkland; from Joseph Paxton, whose engineering feats at Chatsworth mirrored the great Victorian age of technology, to Getrude Jekyll, who turned back to nature and designed the English cottage garden renowned the world over.
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Linda Rutenberg's images capture an astonishing world hidden in plain sight. By photographing public and botanical gardens at night, Rutenberg reveals a luminous landscape of plants, colors, shadows, and light. Twenty-one gardens throughout North America are included, each with intimate portraits of their regional flowers and plants glowing in the blackness, revealing a(...)
The garden at night : Private views of public gardens
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Linda Rutenberg's images capture an astonishing world hidden in plain sight. By photographing public and botanical gardens at night, Rutenberg reveals a luminous landscape of plants, colors, shadows, and light. Twenty-one gardens throughout North America are included, each with intimate portraits of their regional flowers and plants glowing in the blackness, revealing a secret nighttime world of subtle yet vibrant beauty. An essay by celebrated author Christopher Dewdney illuminates the mystique of gardens and the nature of seeing. The Garden at Night will enchant art-lovers and garden-lovers alike.
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