Envisioning the Garden: Line, Scale, Distance, Form, Color, and Meaning - Softcover

Mallet, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393733424 ISBN 13: 9780393733426

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

Synopsis

An expert shares practical, easily achieved principles for making beautiful gardens.

What style to give a garden and how best to lay it out are perennial puzzles for creators of gardens. Gardener/designer Robert Mallet shows how the basic elements of design―line, scale, distance, shape, color, and other sensory associations―can open the viewer’s outlook toward broad perspectives or, conversely, can lock us up in a cage. Reviewing all these elements, Mallet explains what really works, offering a range of practical ideas that can be adapted to visually enlarge space and liberate the mind. He illustrates his ideas in 160 beautiful photographs and the skillful drawings of architect Yves Poinsot.

Mallet was for over twenty years in charge of Le Bois des Moutiers, a park created by his grandfather in Normandy, one of the most beautiful gardens in France, where he was able to put his ideas to the test within the context of a masterpiece of scenic design. 160 four-color illustrations and 20 line drawings

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About the Author

Robert Mallet was for more than twenty years in charge of Le Bois des Moutiers, a park created by his grandfather in Varengeville-sur-mer, Normandy. He is also the author of Rebirth of a Park, about Le Bois des Moutiers.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393733424
• ISBN 13: 9780393733426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144