Author: Jane BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780670806409
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Gardens of a Golden Afternoon
Author: Jane BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780670806409
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Gardens of a Golden Afternoon
Author: Jane BrownPublisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A Lutyens house with a Jekyll garden was an Edwardian catchphrase denoting the very best - a house and garden created by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll. Using photographs, sketches, drawings and planting plans, this book is a joint biography of Lutyens and Jekyll which explores the Victorian and Edwardian periods and the aspirations of the clients that fostered the partnership that has had such an enduring influence on landscape architecture.
Golden Afternoon
Author: M. M. KayePublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250090784
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
In the second book of her autobiography, M. M. Kaye returns, after spending several years at a British boarding school, to India, the cherished country of her childhood. It is 1927, and nineteen-year-old Mollie makes her debut on the Delhi social scene. Feeling awkward and plain, party etiquette and society's intricate rules fluster her, but she finds comfort in her family, her Indian friends, her watercolors, and the country itself. The same humor, wisdom, and enchantment that inspired M.M. Kaye's bestselling novels fill the pages of Golden Afternoon. Kaye re-creates with perfection the nuances of a lifestyle long past and brings the people and glorious terrain of India to vivid life.
Gardens of a Golden Afternoon
Author: Jane BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Cultural Landscape Report
Author: Noah's Garden
Author: Sara Bonnett SteinPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395709405
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Chronicle of the unmaking of a gardener with explorations into the ecology of backyard gardens.
A World of Gardens
Author: John Dixon HuntPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780233787
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A Japanese garden is immediately distinct to the eye from the traditional gardens of an English manor house, just as the manicured topiaries of Versailles contrast with the sharp cacti of the American Southwest. Though gardening is beloved the world over, the style of gardens themselves varies from region to region, determined as much by culture as climate. In this series of illustrated essays, John Dixon Hunt takes us on a world tour of different periods in the making of gardens. Hunt shows here how cultural assumptions and local geography have shaped gardens and their meaning. He explores our continuing responses to land and reworkings of the natural world, encompassing a broad range of gardens, from ancient Roman times to early Islamic and Mughal gardens, from Chinese and Japanese gardens to the invention of the public park and modern landscape architecture. A World of Gardens looks at key chapters in garden history, reviewing their significance past and present and tracing the recurrence of different themes and motifs in the design and reception of gardens throughout the world. A World of Gardens celebrates the idea that similar experiences of gardens can be found in many different times and places, including sacred landscapes, scientific gardens, urban gardens, secluded gardens, and symbolic gardens. Featuring two hundred images, this book is a treasure trove of ideas and inspiration, whether your garden is a window box, a secluded backyard, or a daydream.
Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Author: Judith B. TankardPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604698209
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
“The ever-alluring Arts and Crafts garden…is profoundly relevant to our 21st-century needs.” —Sam Watters, author of Gardens for a Beautiful America In Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement, landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the inspirations, characteristics, and development of garden design during this iconic movement. Tankard presents a selection of houses and gardens of the era from Great Britain and North America. With almost 300 illustrations and photographs, and an emphasis on the diversity of designers who helped forge the movement, Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement is an essential resource for this truly distinct approach to garden design.
The Poetics of Gardens
Author: Charles W. MoorePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262631532
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This is an entirely different garden book: a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. The Poetics of Gardens is a celebration of places and the gardens they can become. Most of the 500 sketches, axonometric drawings, and photographs were created especially for this book. They explore the special qualities of places and the acts that can transform them into gardens. The authors discuss the qualities that create the promise of a garden the shapes of land and water, the established plants, the light and wind, the climate and show how these can be organized to give a place a special meaning. And they pay particular attention to the "rituals of habitation" by which we imaginatively take possession of places on the surface of the earth. The Poetics of Gardens examines great gardens made in other places, with other climates, at other times from ancient Rome to modem England, from Ball to Botany Bay, from the court of Ch'ien Lung to the magic kingdom of Walt Disney to explore their devices and record their images, scents, and sounds. The authors discuss the adaptation of the great garden traditions of the past to North American soil and call together the creators of these gardens to speculate about how their patterns and ideas can be appropriated, transformed, and composed into places that come alive for us.
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