Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day, The

...provides an international tour in time and space of garden design from the Renaissance to the present. As object and as literature, it is a sumptuous and unprecedented resource. Over 650 illustrations and photos in color and black and white. An invaluable compendium of recent research in garden scholarship that can be refereed to time and again as a fundamental starting pint for exploring the many expressions of the place where nature and culture, project and diversion, work and pleasure meet. Destined to become the consummate resource.

Excellent giftable condition. Small tear to DJ.

pub date: 1991 publisher: MIT Press pages: 543 format: Hardcover ISBN: 262132648 sku: 5525G $135.00 (Qty avail: 1)