Women Garden Designers: From 1900 to the Present
«This is an insightful reference work you'll want on your garden bookshelf to page through for ideas again and again. -- Jane Berger The American Gardener, Sept/Oct 2015»
Women Garden Designers presents twenty-seven of the most important and influential women garden designers and their gardens from around the world, showing both their finest commissions as well as the gardens they designed for themselves, in their own space. Les mer
They are represented by Herta Hammerbacher and Rosemary Weisse, who created the glorious perennial plantings in Munich's West Park and Ulla Bodorff in Sweden, as well as Isabelle Greene in California with her dry native plantings. The modern movement includes Monica Gora and Topher Delaney, for whom spirituality and landscape as works of art are important. The more conventional structured approach is represented by Penelope Hobhouse and Rosemary Verey, who began creating gardens later in their lives, following motherhood. Haruko Seki from Japan and Isabel du Prat from Brazil express their own special cultural qualities in their trans-global practices.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Garden Art Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781870673815
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
- Format
- 30 x 24 cm
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«This is an insightful reference work you'll want on your garden bookshelf to page through for ideas again and again. -- Jane Berger The American Gardener, Sept/Oct 2015»