TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kräftner,Johann
TI  - The elegant garden: architecture and landscape of the world's finest gardens 
SN  - 9780847839285 :
AV  - SB 472.45 .K73 2012   
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Rizzoli
KW  - Gardens
KW  - Design
KW  - Landscape gardening
KW  - Pictorial works
N1  - "Originally published in German in 2012 by Christian Brandstätter Verlag, GmbH & Co KG, Wickenburggasse 26 A-1080 Vienna"--P. 432; Includes index; The garden, a place of eternal life -- Arcadia's first rebirth, the Italian garden -- Ordered nature, the French garden -- The world as marvel and harmony, the Chinese garden -- From abstraction to meditation, the Japanese garden -- The designed landscape, the English garden -- Caprices of imagination, follies and pavilions -- Palaces without walls, orangeries and greenhouses -- The art of functional beauty, trellises, gazebos, and pergolas -- The art of beautiful cutting, topiary -- Rooms with sky, the courtyard garden -- Everyday oases, the small garden -- Dialogues between tradition and innovation, the new garden -- Index
ER  -