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 | Gardens have inspired artists for hundreds of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, photographers ranging from Eughne Atget to Edward Steichen were drawn to gardens for their beauty and their metaphorical associations. A century later, in the mid-1980s, an unusually large number of artists returned to the garden as a subject for their photography. This lovely book devoted to the garden photography of contemporary artists accompanies an exhibition organized by the American Federation ...
Amazon / Harry N. Abrams / Book
 Price: 500.00 $ |  | This charming book, first published in 1912 as Gardens for Small Country Houses by Country Life at a time when both Jekyll and Weaver were writing for the magazine, contains the substance of a legend. It embodies the period when the Arts and Crafts Movement had evolved into country house architecture and then found its most delightful expression in the making of gardens. This new edition, which has been re-titled to distinguish it from the original book, is now illustrated with colour photograph ...
Amazon / Antique Collectors Club Dist / Book
Price: 232.24 $ |  | Gardens for the New Country Place captures the bold, dramatic beauty of country gardens designed for extravagant entertaining and visual splendor. Featuring the work of noted landscape architects Edmund Hollander and Mary Ann Connelly, this lavish volume presents panoramic and aerial views of beautiful gardens in the country and on the ocean, of negative-edged swimming pools that seemingly extend into the horizon, and flower gardens so dense that one can almost literally smell the roses. Noted g ...
Amazon / Watson-Guptill / Book
Price: 224.98 $ |  | Like Gardening with Water, the first book in the series, this volume is filled with valuable information and sound advice (House Beautiful). Van Sweden shows how to design and plant bold romantic gardens for which he is renowned, teaching readers everything from how to create a meadow to how to block unwanted urban and suburban views. 225 photos, 175 in color. 75 line drawings. Lecture tour. ...
Amazon / Watson-Guptill Publications / Book
Price: 222.19 $ |  | The sumptuous palace and gardens of Versailles represented both Louis XIV’s celebration of himself and a perfectly balanced integration of art and nature. Millions of tourists have long admired the gardens for their inexhaustible source of new life and enduring mystery. The allées and parterres resonate with memories of pomps and promenades, feasts and follies. As a monument to the Sun King, the solar symbolism of Apollo reigns over both architecture and ornament at Versailles, yet French classi ...
Amazon / Harry N. Abrams / Book
Price: 132.77 $ |  | Don?t have a lot of room for gardening? Live in the city with only a balcony or less to grow a garden? Then this is the book for you. This book resurrects the art of window box gardening. From formal arrangements of evergreens and classic flowers to delicate romantic plantings, The Window Box Gardening Book offers an extraordinary range of design for every environment. Here are charming country window boxes, sophisticated urban plantings, special gardens for sun and shade, and dazzling arrangeme ...
Amazon / Quarry Books / Book
Price: 124.01 $ |  | By bringing what H. Marc Cathey, president of the American Horticultural Society, has called a new wave of naturalism to America, James van Sweden and his partner, Wolfgang Oehme, have revolutionized American landscape design. Van Sweden and Oehme are internationally renowned for their public projects and private commissions: responsible for the Hudson River Park in New York City and several gardens of the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C., they have landscaped the properties of celebr ...
Amazon / Watson-Guptill Publications / Book
Price: 120.80 $ |  | The English garden, no matter how grand, is an outgrowth of nature, while the French garden, or jardin a la francaise, is a place of formality and grandeur. The origins of the latter are to be found in the Italian Renaissance, which sought inspiration in antiquity. Architects were hired for gardens for the first time, and expected to create a work of art by taming nature to their purposes. The French garden makes use, above all, of geometric design, symmetry, repetition of decorative elements, a ...
Amazon / Vendome Press / Book
Price: 116.66 $ |  | Like Gardening with Water, the first book in the series, this volume is filled with valuable information and sound advice (House Beautiful). Van Sweden shows how to design and plant bold romantic gardens for which he is renowned, teaching readers everything from how to create a meadow to how to block unwanted urban and suburban views. 225 photos, 175 in color. 75 line drawings. Lecture tour. ...
Amazon / Random House / Book
Price: 65.00 $ |  | Woodland gardens are usually large, but this book is intended for woodland lovers who own small or average sized gardens. For year-round beauty, gardens based on the woodland principle cannot be bettered. It is fashionable nowadays to look for ways to improve the health of the planet, and what better way could there be than to plant trees, and the woodland plants able to associate with them. This is a really useful pocket book when visiting nurseries and garden centres, or when planning your new ...
Amazon / Dreamstairway / Book
Price: 62.02 $ |  | A rare and long out-of-print treasure of garden literature, Gardens of Colony and State returns in a special reprint edition. Widely considered the best reference on garden-making in the colonies and the Republic, the handsome two-volume set is a lasting record of American gardens and gardeners before 1840. The landmark publication traces the development of a uniquely American garden design, exploring early garden literature and its effect on colonial craftsmen, as well as pre-1800 account books ...
Amazon / University of Pennsylvania Press / Book
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