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240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm., Presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants. Many of her clients were members of the highest society with estates in Newport, the Berkshires, and Maine, but Farrand ultimately became a consultant for university campuses, including Yale and Princeton, and for public gardens, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at The New York Botanical Garden. Perhaps her best-known work is Dumbarton Oaks, originally a private residence and now a research institute of Harvard University. Known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers, her gardens have been photographed at their peak for this book, and complemented by watercolor wash renderings of her designs.--From publisher description.
Landscape architects
Landscape architecture History.
Gardens Design History.
Tankard, Judith B.
The education of a landscape gardener -- From society girl to career woman -- A style of her own -- The garden as a picture -- Two early heirloom gardens -- Long Island country estates -- Gardening by the sea -- The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden -- Three Connecticut gardens bloom again -- Dumbarton Oaks -- Collegial landscapes -- California and beyond -- Reef point and its legacy -- A garden in eden.
New York : Monacelli Press
240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants. Many of her clients were members of the highest society with estates in Newport, the Berkshires, and Maine, but Farrand ultimately became a consultant for university campuses, including Yale and Princeton, and for public gardens, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at The New York Botanical Garden. Perhaps her best-known work is Dumbarton Oaks, originally a private residence and now a research institute of Harvard University. Known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers, her gardens have been photographed at their peak for this book, and complemented by watercolor wash renderings of her designs.--From publisher description.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historic New England Honor Book, 2010.
9781580932271
1580932274
1718609000
9781718609006
Stacks SB470.F37 T36 2009
Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959.
Biography.
United States
1st ed.
Private gardens, public landscapes
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