
Mediterranean Landscape Design
Vernacular Contemporary
Louisa Jones(Author)
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 5. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-500-29111-5 (ISBN)
Description
Human beings have been transforming Mediterranean landscapes into art for at least thirty thousand years. Today's artists, sculptors, designers, architects and gardeners explore age-old vernacular materials, skills and sites to produce extraordinary landscape art that affirms an ideal of partnership with nature while celebrating layers of living in this multifaceted region. Each work observes the logic of place as determined by climate, geology, flora and fauna, architecture and land use. Illustrated with hundreds of exceptional photographs by award- winning photographer Clive Nichols, and drawing on nearly forty years of exploration by Louisa Jones, this book offers a fresh vision of the Mediterranean, past and future, linking cultural diversity and natural balance as discovered in its gardens, landscape design, literature, art and architecture.
Reviews / Votes
'Louisa Jones has lived in southern France for nearly 40 years and her knowledge of and passion for the region is distilled in this scholarly work ... Immensely inspirational and informative' - Garden Design Journal 'Ambitious and scholarly ... Clive Nichols's photographs speak with eloquence' - Gardens IllustratedMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
265 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 289 mm
Width: 258 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
1421 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-500-29111-5 (9780500291115)
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Book
04/2012
Thames & Hudson Ltd
€59.68
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Person
Louisa Jones has lived in southern France for nearly forty years. She is the author of many books on gardens and landscape. She is the author of many books on gardens and landscape, including Kitchen Gardens of France, The French Country Garden, Reinventing the Garden and The Garden Visitor's Companion. Clive Nichols is one of the world's most
successful flower and garden photographers, and in 2005 was voted
Garden Photographer of the Year by the Garden Writers Guild.
successful flower and garden photographers, and in 2005 was voted
Garden Photographer of the Year by the Garden Writers Guild.