Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Frances Lincoln (2006), Edition: 1st Edition, 272 pages
Description
In Search of Paradise is a survey of the great gardens of the world, presented through photographic images and the descriptions of the garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse. Here you will find the oases of the Middle East, the gardens of Chinese scholars, Japanese sages and Renaissance humanists, French baroque gardens, the English landscape garden of Capability Brown and his followers. Here too are the gardens of the great modern designers, among them Roberto Burle Marx, Fernando Caruncho, Dan Kiley, John Brookes and James van Sweden.
User reviews
LibraryThing member Brightman
A great way to gaze at gardens...almost like being there.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
272 p.; 12.25 inches
ISBN
0711226156 / 9780711226159