New English Garden - Couverture rigide

Richardson, Tim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0711232709 ISBN 13 : 9780711232709

Editeur : Frances Lincoln, 2013

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

In his latest authoritative treatise, UK gardening writer Richardson (former gardens editor, Country Life; Great Gardens of America) explores current trends and developments in British landscape design through the prism of 25 different English gardens that have been designed or redesigned in the last decade. Each creation merits a concise yet engaging essay by Richardson about the philosophy and intentions of the designer(s) and how successfully they were embodied in the ensuing gardens. Lush color photographs by Lawson (The Gardener’s Book of Color) contribute to simply stunning results. The scope of gardening styles covered ranges from modern designs, such as Patrick Blanc’s Living Wall at London’s Athenaeum Hotel, to the more classic look, for example, Jinny Bloom’s Temple Guiting in Gloucestershire. ­VERDICT Richardson delivers an excellent overview of the current state of landscape design in England, making this title complementary to Ursula Buchan’s The English Garden, which has its own Lawson photographs and thematically covers the long history of public gardens in England. This book’s spot-on combination of pithy prose and drool-worthy images will make it a sure hit with landscape-design professionals and armchair gardeners alike. - Library Journal

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A comprehensive overview of the contemporary English garden scene, by the dream team of Tim Richardson, most perceptive and insightful of contemporary writers on gardens, and renowned garden photographer Andrew Lawson.

The past ten to fifteen years has been an exceptionally rich period in English garden design, and for this book Tim Richardson has selected twenty-five gardens which have gone through an intense phase of creativity and innovation during this time span. The gardens chosen (most of which are open to the public), cover the wide range of styles flourishing in English garden design today and range from the Prince of Wales's garden at Highgrove, through Trentham Gardens (a 'Capability' Brown landscape imaginatively reworked for the twentieth-century by Piet Oudolf, Tom Stuart-Smith and Dominic Cole), Arabella Lennox-Boyd's own garden and 'laboratory for design ideas' at Gresgarth and Dan Pearson's Gardener's Cottage to Christopher Bradley-Hole's Modernist garden at Crockmore House, Kim Wilkie's astonishing Orpheus Landform, and Alasdair Ford's truly original garden of sculptures and poetic inferences at Plaz Metaxu.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Frances Lincoln
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0711232709
• ISBN 13: 9780711232709
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304