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Arts & Crafts Gardens
Author: Gertrude Jekyll and Lawrence Weaver
Color Illus: 143 BW Illus: 434
ISBN:1 870673 16 6 pp: 288 Published by: Garden Art Press |
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| This charming book, first published in 1912 as Gardens for Small Country Houses by Country Life at a time when both Jekyll and Weaver were writing for the magazine, contains the substance of a legend. It embodies the period when the Arts and Crafts Movement had evolved into country house architecture and then found its most delightful expression in the making of gardens. This new edition, which has been re-titled to distinguish it from the original book, is now illustrated with color photographs and reproductions of contemporary paintings and watercolors which bring new color and light to a vanished world. In their collaboration on this book, the authors found common ground and reveled in their mutual intuitive approach to artistic and historic gardening ideas.
Arts and Crafts Gardens is a practical handbook with invaluable information on garden restoration, insights into craftsmanship and planting relationships, and provides a fascinating classic text on garden design. The Author-- GERTRUDE JEKYLL(1843-1932) studied painting as a young girl, then fulfilled many commissions, enjoying a considerable reputation as an artist and craftswoman before becoming a ǃÚgardenerǃÙ. A friend and partner with Edwin Lutyens, she collaborated with him on over one hundred houses and gardens, mainly in the years up to the First World War. Gertrude Jekyll was one of the most influential gardeners of the twentieth century and she was responsible for radical changes in the approach to garden design. Her writings are all based on personal experience gained in her legendary garden at Munstead Wood. SEE ALSO: THE FLOWERS OF WILLIAM MORRIS | ||||||
