Ebook: Lives of the Great Gardeners
Author: Anderton Stephen
- Tags: Gardeners, Gardens, Gardens--History, Landscape architects, History, Biographies, Gardeners -- Biography, Landscape architects -- Biography, Gardens -- History
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
- City: London
- Edition: Reprinted
- Language: English
- epub
Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur gardeners, others professional designers with an international practice. Some have come to garden-making from sister arts such as sculpture or painting; some have been hands-on nurserymen or botanists. What they all have in common, no matter where or when they were born, is the ability to take an idea and develop it in a new manner relevant to their times.
The book contains four sections. Gardens of Ideas moves from the politically allusive gardens of 18th-century England made by men such as William Kent, to Charles Jenckss Scottish garden inspired by 21st-century cosmography. Gardens of Straight Lines explores the lives of the great formalist gardeners, from Le Nôtre at Versailles to the rational English minimalism of contemporary designer Christopher Bradley-Hole. Gardens of Curves begins with that great exponent of the English landscape garden, Capability Brown . . .