Mediterranean Landscape Design
Vernacular Contemporary
Published on 16. April 2012
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-500-51611-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. Divided into eleven sections built around themes such as stoneworks, earthworks, woodworks and seascapes, each of the featured works observes the logic of place as determined by climate, geology, flora and fauna, architecture and land use. The book includes well-known designers such as Heidi Gildemeister, Mary Keen, Arnaud Maurieres and Eric Ossart, Jacqueline Morabito, Paolo Pejrone and Nicole de Vesian, as well as land artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Ian Hamilton Finlay and herman de vries. Glorious locations include the romantic landscaped ruins of Ninfa in Italy; hidden gardens in Venice; a 'lichen boulevard' in the Ardeche mountains; trees turned into sculptures in Provence; hardscaping in southern Morocco; and the quarries at Bibemus that once inspired Paul Cezanne. It comes complete with a listing of useful contact details for practitioners and sites to visit.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
265 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 290 mm
Width: 260 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-500-51611-9 (9780500516119)
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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.
Content
INTRODUCTION * MEDITERRANEAN VERNACULAR LANDSCAPE ART AND DESIGN * MOUNTAINS * TIME RECYCLED Digne-les-Bains, Haute Provence | Andy Goldsworthy and herman de vries NATURAL HISTORY Sentier des Lauzes, Ardeche | Domingo Cisneros and Gilles Clement * STONEWORKS QUARRY Strongilo and Kanonas, Corfu | Rothschild family and Mary Keen HILLSIDE TERRACING Fleur de l'Air, Provence | Ian Hamilton Finlay; Clos Pascal and La Louve, Provence | Nicole de Vesian * EARTHWORKS * PIGMENTS Bibemus, Provence | Philippe Deliau, ALEP Agency RAMMED EARTH Al Hossoun, Southern Morocco | Arnaud Maurieres and Eric Ossart * WOODWORKS GLADE AND GROVE Fleur de l'Air, Provence | Ian Hamilton Finlay; The Grove, French Riviera | Jacqueline Morabito TREES Mas de Michel, Le Terrain and La Carmejane, Provence | Marc Nucera * CLIPPED GREENERY TAPESTRIES La Louve, Provence | Nicole de Vesian BLACK AND WHITE The Hamlet and The Grove, French Riviera | Jacqueline Morabito * MATORRAL, MAQUIS, MEADOW AEGEAN PHRYGANA OLIAROS, Antiparos, Greece | doxiadis+ TUSCAN MACCHIA Argentario, Tuscany | Paolo Pejrone MEADOW AND MATORRAL Meze, Languedoc | Olivier and Clara Filippi * FIELD GEOMETRIES CLASSICAL CLARITY Sa Vina Vella, Mallorca | Fernando Caruncho SOFT MINIMALISM Mas de Benoit, Provence | Alain David Idoux * GARDEN ANGLO-ITALIAN Ninfa, Lazio | Caetani family DESIGNER ITALIAN Bramafam, Piedmont | Paolo Pejrone MEDITERRANEAN HOME STYLE La Malherbe, French Riviera | Mireille Ferrari * SEASCAPES PLANETARY VISION Domaine du Rayol, French Riviera | Gilles Clement MEDITERRANEAN JAPANESE Peninsula Garden, Corsica | Erik Borja * EMPORIUM MASKS The Gardens of Venice I COSMOPOLITAN VERNACULAR The Gardens of Venice II * MESURA ROMANTIC CONTRADICTIONS Ninfa, Lazio | Caetani family ARCADIA IN MALLORCA Ariant, Mallorca | Heidi Gildemeister NOTES * BIBLIOGRAPHY * LIST OF ADDRESSES * ACKNOWLEDGMENTS * INDEX