出版社: Thames & Hudson; 1 (2016年8月8日)

精装: 304页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 0500518564

条形码: 9780500518564

商品尺寸: 18.6 x 3 x 24.6 cm

纵观历史，伟大的园丁们已经在各行各业中熠熠生辉。有些是贵族的业余园丁，有着国际经验的专业设计师。有人从诸如雕塑或姊妹绘画艺术中汲取造园灵感；有的是需要实地动手操作的园林苗木或植物学家。无论他们在哪里或出生于何处，他们都有共同的特点，那就是有能力将一个想法付诸行动，并以一种新的方式与他们的时代相协调。  

本书包含四个部分。

“园林的创意”展示从十八世纪由William Kent这样的男人用思想，创作出的英国具有政治暗示意义的花园，到二十一世纪的灵感来自宇宙学的查尔斯·詹克斯创作的苏格兰花园。

“直线花园”，探讨了大形式主义的园丁生活，从凡尔赛宫的Le Nôtre，到崇尚极简主义的当代设计师Christopher Bradley。

“曲线花园”，展现英国自然风景园。

“苗圃工的花园”，从自然种植之父威廉·罗便臣的花园，到纽约最受喜爱的荷兰设计师Piet Oudolf的优秀作品。  

本书由优秀园艺作家Stephen Anderton著文，吸引无处不在的花园爱好者。

Entertaining and accessible―the lives of the men and women, many of them multitalented artists, who created some of the world’s most extraordinary gardens, and whose legacy continues to inspire

Throughout history, great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur gardeners, others professional designers with an international practice. Some have come to garden-making from sculpture or painting; some have been hands-on nurserymen or botanists. What they all have in common is the ability to take an idea and develop it to meet the needs and aesthetics of their times.

The book is organized into four thematic sections. Gardens of Ideas moves from the politically allusive gardens of eighteenth-century England to Charles Jencks’s Scottish garden inspired by twenty-first-century cosmography. Gardens of Straight Lines explores the lives of the great formalist gardeners, from Le N?tre at Versailles to the rational English minimalism of contemporary designer Christopher Bradley-Hole. Gardens of Curves opens with that great exponent of the English landscape garden, “Capability” Brown, and moves on to the extraordinary Brazilian designer Roberto Burle Marx. Finally, Gardens of Plantsmanship arcs from the father of naturalistic planting, William Robinson, to the sweeping prairie-style of Piet Oudolf.

With images of gardens as they were originally seen, together with portraits of their makers and an outstanding text by the award-winning gardens writer for The Times, this book will appeal to garden lovers everywhere.

230 color illustrations

Stephen Anderton is a journalist, author, lecturer, and broadcaster. He is The Times's longstanding writer on gardens and gardening.