In Search of Paradise: Great Gardens of the World
In Search of Paradise: Great Gardens of the World
In Search of Paradise is a survey of the great gardens of the world, presented through photographic images and the descriptions of the garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse. Here you will find the oases of the Middle East, the gardens of Chinese scholars, Japanese sages and Renaissance humanists, French baroque gardens, the English landscape garden of Capability Brown and his followers. Here too are the gardens of the great modern designers, among them Roberto Burle Marx, Fernando Carunch
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A VOLUME TO SAVOR AND RETURN TO AGAIN AND AGAIN,
The ideal garden we are given to understand is a paradise – “a haven of comfort, abundance, and beauty.” Many of us try to achieve that paradigm in our own way, as have countless others before us. Now gathered in one gorgeous volume are the results of those endeavors gleaned from diverse cultures and climes.
We begin our armchair tour with “Gardens Through the Centuries,” a journey covering four thousand years beginning with the earliest gardens alive in the deserts of the Middle East. The first Mughal Emperor Babur (1483 – 1530) had a number of gardens including the Garden of Fidelity which was divided into four parts with a central pool.
Of course, the gardens designed in China and Japan expressed a respect for nature, evidenced in vast areas where the placement of each stone had meaning. Places for contemplation, stroll and moss gardens were found in Japan.
For this reader what can compare with the gardens of Italy? Hadrian’s Villa near Tivoli boasts open porticoes, enclosed atriums, fountains, basins, statuary. It is a wonder. La Mortola on the Italian Riviera is a place for dreaming with a steep slope to the sea rich in agaves, aloes, white roses, salvias and citrus trees. A virtual Eden on earth.
Ms. Hobhouse continues our tour with a look at modern garden design as represented by such designers as Roberto Burle Marx, Fernando Caruncho, and Beth Chatto.
“In Search of Paradise” holds 240 pages and 200 illustrations all in glorious color contributed by the world’s foremost garden photographers.
The is a volume to be savored and returned to again and again.
– Gail Cooke
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|Beautiful and enchanting trip through the gardens of the world,
A wonderful book, with beautiful and inspiring pictures. Always a pleasure to go back again and again at its pages.
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|INCREDIBLE!!,
Los mas bellos jardines del mundo en un solo libro; una magnifica coleccion indispensable en toda biblioteca de cualquier amante del paisajismo, la jardineria y la arquitectura del espacio abierto; con excelentes fotos de gran calidad, paginas muy bien ilustradas y que proporcionan maravillosas ideas de lo que un jardin esencialmente es; incluye reseñas historicas y obras de renombrados paisajistas de todo el mundo junto a sus grandes legados al mundo del espacio…Un maravilloso libro!!
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