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Mediterranean Landscape Design
Louisa Jones
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Description for Mediterranean Landscape Design
Paperback. Human beings have been transforming Mediterranean landscapes into art for at least thirty thousand years. This multifaceted region. This book offers a vision of the Mediterranean, past and future, linking cultural diversity and natural balance as discovered in its gardens, landscape design, literature, art and architecture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 265 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 262 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1420.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500291115
SKU
V9780500291115
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Louisa Jones
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Mediterranean Landscape Design
'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 Illustrated