Influential gardeners : the designers who shaped 20th-century garden style /
Influential Gardeners is a unique guide to the most innovative and important designers who have shaped -- and continue to form -- today's taste in garden design.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Clarkson Potter/Publisher,
[2002]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | Influential Gardeners is a unique guide to the most innovative and important designers who have shaped -- and continue to form -- today's taste in garden design. From early stars such as Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Jekyll, and Nancy Lancaster through contemporary leading practitioners, including Martha Schwarz, Dan Pearson, Oehme van Sweden, and Arabella Lennox-Boyd, Influential Gardeners encompasses the entire spectrum of garden design and puts its elements and influences into a coherent perspective. Biographical details, photographs, quotations, personal anecdotes, and explanations of important projects and key motifs of each designer are showcased. This is an essential reference for anyone -- whether a practicing garden designer or an enthusiast -- who wishes to know more about the greats in garden design. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm |
| ISBN: | 1400048117 |