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The elegant garden : architecture and landscape of the world's finest gardens / Johann Kräftner.
Publication details: New York, NY : Rizzoli, 2012.Description: 432 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 25 x 30 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780847839285 :
- 0847839281 :
- SB 472.45 .K73 2012
Contents:
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.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | SB 472.45 .K73 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5081760 |
"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.
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