Breaking Ground: Portraits of Ten Garden Designers - Rilegato

Dickey, Page; Lennard, Erica

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1885183372 ISBN 13: 9781885183378

Casa editrice: Artisan, 1997

Riassunto

Provides an in-depth look at the gardening designs of ten garden designers in Europe and the United States

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Page Dickey lectures regularly on garden design and teaches classes at the New York Botanical Garden and the Horticultural Society of New York.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

Not since Marina Schinz's masterful Visions of Paradise, published in 1984, has there been such an important survey of garden design and style as Breaking Ground. Whereas Visions of Paradise featured classic European garden design, Breaking Ground takes an in-depth look at the work of ten contemporary garden designers living and working in America and Europe today.

The 200 glorious full-color photographs by Erica Lennard and the engaging text by garden writer and designer Page Dickey capture the spirit and genius of these ten designers. A chapter is devoted to each designer--his or her sources of inspiration, style, philosophy, and method of creation. From the bold Southern California designs of Nancy Power to the urban geometries of Madison Cox to the updated French formal style of Louis Benech to the romantic country gardens of Nancy McCabe, Breaking Ground profiles the artists who are redefining garden design categories.

In addition to the stunning photographs, sketches and garden plans by the designers are also included. An unusual and practical feature of the book is the afterword by Dickey in which she describes how she is applying what she has learned from each designer to her own garden in New York State. Photographs of her garden show the canvas she is reworking.

Inspirational, informative, contemporary, and beautiful, Breaking Ground is a spectacularly crafted object in itself--sure to be one of the major garden style books for many years to come.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Artisan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1885183372
• ISBN 13: 9781885183378
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 207