Baroque Garden Cultures: Emulation, Sublimation, Subversion proposes a new approach to the study of baroque gardens, examining the social reception of gardens as a ...
The gardens of Versailles are perhaps the most famous in the world. Seemingly open to the horizon, their scale is monumental. Their grand east-west ...
Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as ...
Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal ...
Gardens contain time, culture, and nature. They are powerful symbolic spaces onto which a society can project its ideals, either to conjure or contrive ...
This book unites new information and surprising results from the last fifteen years of garden research, at a remove from the clichés of Orientalism. ...
Covers postwar garden restorations in Europe and the USA. This title explains why garden restoration has become important and popular. It looks at how ...
Botanic Gardens: A Living History is an extensive and practical guide to the worlds foremost botanic gardens. This visually stunning hardback book unearths the ...
