Midcentury Modern Landscape

Hardback

Main Details

Title Midcentury Modern Landscape
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ethne Clarke
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:222
Dimensions(mm): Height 286,Width 241
Category/GenreLandscape art and architecture
Home and house maintenance
Landscape gardening
ISBN/Barcode 9781423645801
ClassificationsDewey:712
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc
Imprint Gibbs M. Smith Inc
Publication Date 3 October 2017
Publication Country United States

Description

The Midcentury Modern Landscape explores the origins of midcentury modern garden design for the home, revealing how designers at the time blurred the divisions between indoors and outdoors, creating gardens that were for living, a style that went on to inspire contemporary gardens around the world. The Midcentury Modern Landscape is a fresh gui

Author Biography

Ethne Clarke is an award-winning journalist, former garden editor of Traditional Home, and contributing editor for House & Garden. Well-known as the author of a number of best-selling books on practical gardening, design and landscape history, she holds a Master of Philosophy from the faculty of Fine Art, De Montfort University, England. Her research has involved a close study of architectural history between the Arts and Crafts period and early Modernism, and this has been a guiding influence on the renovation of her house and garden in Colorado--a small midcentury modern ranch built in 1958.