The Minimalist Garden - Softcover

Christopher Bradley-Hole

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ISBN 10: 184533065X ISBN 13: 9781845330651

Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group, 2005

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Minimalist gardens, with their emphasis on clean lines, pure form, and a strong sense of space, are closely related to contemporary architecture and lifestyles. This book draws together a wide variety of minimalist gardens from around the world - large and small, urban and rural. The projects are grouped into thematic chapters, and the designers represented include Vladimir Sitta, John Pawson, Luis Barragan, Seth Stein, Jacques Wirtz, Tadao Ando, Martha Schwartz, Shodo Suzuki, and Isamu Noguchi; the book looks at the inspiration behind each garden and the frequent use of unusual materials and imaginative planning. The author also explains the philosophy of minimalism in gardens and related arts, as well as parallel trends in relaxed and ecologically aware planting. Also included are directories of materials and suitable plants for the minimalist garden.

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Christopher Bradley-Hole is one of the most ground-breaking and influential garden and landscape designers working today. He qualified as an architect and since becoming a professional garden and landscape designer has won numerous awards, including gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1997, 2000, 2003, and 2004. His show garden for the 2004 Chelsea Flower Show has also won the Best Show Garden award. He now runs a leading landscape design consultancy and his work has been featured many times on TV and in the press. His current projects include a new public landscape for the BBC in London, and gardens for Pallant House Modern Art Gallery in Chichester and a garden in Dorset for English Heritage. He also teaches diploma students at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew. His first book, The Minimalist Garden (Mitchell Beazley) won the Garden Writer s Guild award for 1999/2000.

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