Overview :It was a nervous breakdown that drew Sir George Sitwell to Italy in the 20th century. And it was the incomparable gardens of Tuscany, Rome, ... Read More
Overview :Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection... Read More
Overview :In the absence of any modern history of French garden art, this volume offers twelve chapters that review some of the most interesting and i... Read More
Overview :The description for this book, Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600-1750, will be forthcoming.... Read More
Overview :A garden classic, The Genius of the Place reveals that the history of landscape gardening is much more than a history of design and style; i... Read More
Overview :Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a peculiarly English art form -- landscape gardening -- and a corresponding change in attitudes t... Read More
Overview :Gardens have been all things to all people: paradoxical sites of pleasure and pain, safety and danger, art and nature; public spaces and pri... Read More
Overview :Italian Renaissance gardens were the admiration of Europe and North America. They revived the classical art of garden making, as well as dra... Read More
Overview :Landscape architecture and garden-making have witnessed huge changes during the twentieth-century, and the impact of these will continue to ... Read More