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Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (she was the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the traditional social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants. Many of her clients were members of the highes...more
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published
September 29th 2009
by The Monacelli Press
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The book is packed with beautiful photos. It does make a better browsing book than a reading book. I bogged down in details about yet another patron's credentials, and some of the paragraphs seemed loosely held together. Still I kept reading because much research had clearly gone into the book; evocative excerpts from Farrand's writings, glimpses of interesting personalities, and interesting information on garden design kept surfacing.
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