{"product_id":"of-gardens-9780812223545","title":"Of Gardens","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf Gardens records a great adventure of continual discovery not only of the artful beauty of individual gardens and landscapes but also of the intellectual and historical threads that weave them into patterns of civilization. Deitz's vivid descriptions and recollections allow readers to share in the experience of her extensive travels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deitz applies a cool intelligence, formidable powers of observation, and extensive research to convey the experience of walking through her chosen landscapes and unearthing the layers of their creation.\" * \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a book for the savvy reader who enjoys an intelligent discussion of gardens without all the glossy eye-candy photographs that pervade most books today. . . . No matter what the subject is that catches Deitz's fancy, she always manages to draw her reader in without pomposity or jargon.\" * \u003ci\u003eLandscape Architecture Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In over 70 essays, covering places and people all over the world, Deitz fuses her emotional response perfectly with what must have involved a massive amount of historical, horticultural and literary research. For anyone jaded with reading about gardens, or (heaven forbid) with visiting them, her intelligent appreciation of gardens, new and old, must surely revive and inspire.\" * \u003ci\u003eHistoric Gardens Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Though not intended as a guidebook, \u003ci\u003eOf Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e will bring readers to the conclusion that the next best thing to having Paula Deitz as their traveling companion on a forthcoming garden tour is to read the relevant essay in her book. In the manner of similar collections, this book might have been titled The Best of Deitz. And, as we have seen, the best of Deitz is very good indeed.\" * \u003ci\u003eNew Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"When it comes to gardens of lavish beauty, a picture may truly be worth a thousand words. Rare is the text that can match this feat, but in her sumptuous essay collection, Deitz more than meets the challenge, crafting worlds so precise in their detail and lush in their imagery the effect is as dazzling as any rendered by an artist or photographer. Here are the iconic gardens of the world-the Taj Mahal's Moonlight Garden, Versailles, Kew Gardens-laid out in verdant glory that is made richer for Deitz's insider revelations of arcane aspects of design or development. Here, too, are the acclaimed landscape architects who made it all happen, with special attention paid to trailblazing women such as Beatrix Farrand and Deborah Nevins. A prolific journalist with vast interests in divergent yet mutually illuminating fields, Deitz masterfully celebrates the myriad attractions of gardens both great and small, public and private, and their ability to enrich, ennoble, and entertain.\" * \u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Prologue. The Lure of the Porch in Summer:\u003cbr\u003e Privacy and Pleasure\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER ONE. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS\u003cbr\u003e Designing Women: In-Depth View of Twentieth-Century Women Landscape Designers\u003cbr\u003e Beatrix Farrand and The Bulletins of Reef Point Gardens\u003cbr\u003e The Private World of a Great Gardener: Rachel Lambert Mellon\u003cbr\u003e \"Make the Land Work for You\": Russell Page in America\u003cbr\u003e Profile of Dan Kiley\u003cbr\u003e Grounded in History: Deborah Nevins's Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e Private Visions: The Gardens of Michael Van Valkenburgh\u003cbr\u003e A Cultivated Civilization: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon's Drawings of Classical Gardens\u003cbr\u003e Planting Plastic: Martha Schwartz Looks to Art for Inspiration\u003cbr\u003e Resurrection: The Built Landscapes of George Hargreaves\u003cbr\u003e A Twinkling Terrace that Reaches for the Stars: Kathryn Gustafson in New York and France\u003cbr\u003e Landform Future: Laurie Olin and the Integration of Architecture and Landscape\u003cbr\u003e A Feminist View of Landscapes: A Partnership with Nature\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER TWO. PARKS AND PUBLIC PLACES\u003cbr\u003e A Bouquet of British Parks: Liverpool, Edinburgh, and London\u003cbr\u003e Central Park's Bethesda Terrace and Its Restoration\u003cbr\u003e Summer in Central Park\u003cbr\u003e For This Movie, Step into the Garden\u003cbr\u003e Rooftop Formal Gardens at Rockefeller Center\u003cbr\u003e Hortus Conclusus: The Gardens at the Cloisters\u003cbr\u003e The IBM Garden Plaza\u003cbr\u003e A Crystal Palace: Final Portrait of the Palm House\u003cbr\u003e Gardens Fit for a Queen\u003cbr\u003e Hartford's 1896 Rose Garden, Whose Ancestors Were Born in France\u003cbr\u003e 2,700 Roses Re-create Old Garden: The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden\u003cbr\u003e A Victorian Gem Restored: The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory\u003cbr\u003e A Centennial Bouquet: The Botanic Garden of Smith College, 1895-1995\u003cbr\u003e The Rose Garden at the White House\u003cbr\u003e A New Memorial Squanders a Sparkling Opportunity\u003cbr\u003e The Green Gardens of Jerusalem: Parks, Squares, and Promenades\u003cbr\u003e Garden Letter from Greece: The Agora\u003cbr\u003e The Moonlight Garden at the Taj Mahal\u003cbr\u003e A Rare Garden in Barbados: Andromeda Gardens\u003cbr\u003e Along a Nature and Garden Trail in Bermuda\u003cbr\u003e A Walk in the Park Around Jinji Lake\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER THREE. AMERICAN\u003cbr\u003e The Poetics of the American Garden\u003cbr\u003e 1680 Formal Garden Discovered in the South\u003cbr\u003e A Historic Colonial Plantation Recovered from the Rough\u003cbr\u003e Fairsted: At Home with Frederick Law Olmsted\u003cbr\u003e At Old Westbury, Gracious Gardens\u003cbr\u003e Stately Views: A 1920s Garden Inspired by the Villa d'Este\u003cbr\u003e Mediterranean Light: A Classic Italian Garden in California\u003cbr\u003e Wethersfield: In the Style of an Italian Villa Garden\u003cbr\u003e The American Academy in Rome\u003cbr\u003e The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: A Blend of Far Eastern and English Inspiration\u003cbr\u003e Far East, Down East: A Classic Asian Landscape\u003cbr\u003e A Cultivated Coast: The Garden at Somes Meadow\u003cbr\u003e On Maine's Coast, Vistas Are Cast in Stone\u003cbr\u003e Autumn in New England\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER FOUR. BRITISH\u003cbr\u003e The Painted Garden: William Kent's Rousham\u003cbr\u003e Painshill Park: Charles Hamilton's Folly Garden\u003cbr\u003e The Waterways of Castle Howard\u003cbr\u003e Reclaiming Noble Gardens of the Towy Valley\u003cbr\u003e Classic Garden Tames a Fierce Welsh Crag: Powis Castle\u003cbr\u003e Buckhurst Park: From Humphry Repton to Edwin\u003cbr\u003e Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll\u003cbr\u003e Lanning Roper's English Gardens with a U.S. Flavor\u003cbr\u003e Machine in the Garden: Charles Jencks's Garden of Scottish Worthies\u003cbr\u003e Sitting in the Garden: A History\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER FIVE. FRENCH\u003cbr\u003e The Gardens of Versailles\u003cbr\u003e An Echo of a Memory: Recultivating the Tuileries\u003cbr\u003e The Formal Farm: Pascal Cribier's Vision of Rural Geometry\u003cbr\u003e The Désert de Retz: Cultural History Through Architecture\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER SIX. JAPANESE\u003cbr\u003e Autumn in Japan\u003cbr\u003e Japanese Screens and the Gardens of Kyoto\u003cbr\u003e Balancing Act: A Contemporary Garden for Kyoto's Oldest House\u003cbr\u003e Tea and Empathy: The Japanese House, Shofuso, in Fairmount Park\u003cbr\u003e Rice Paddy in the Sky: Rooftop Garden at the Mori Center\u003cbr\u003e Plum Blossoms: The Third Friend of Winter\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER SEVEN. FLOWER SHOWS\u003cbr\u003e Courson: French International Flower Sale\u003cbr\u003e At Chelsea Flower Show: Gardens in Romantic Ruins\u003cbr\u003e Free to Grow Bluebells in England: British Prisoners Win Gold Medal\u003cbr\u003e A Garden Festival in Lausanne\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. A Winter Garden of Yellow\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e —John Dixon Hunt\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Photography Credits\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405703881047,"sku":"9780812223545","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812223545.jpg?v=1730493336","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/of-gardens-9780812223545","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}