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The Well-Designed Garden
An innovative garden designer presents an accessible resource, complete with detailed, full-color photography and annotated sketches, that take readers step by step through the process of transforming any garden, with each chapter focusing on a single design concept and including variations on the basic design.
- GenresGardeningNonfiction
352 pages, Paperback
First published May 21, 2007
About the author
John Brookes
115 books9 followersJohn Andrew Brookes MBE was a garden and landscape designer. He started designing gardens and landscapes in the late 1950s and designed thousands of gardens. He also taught and lectured about horticulture, landscape and interior design.
Beginning as a Modernist and working with Dame Sylvia Crowe, Brenda Colvin, Geoffrey Jellicoe and other notable architects and landscape architects, Brookes came of age in the dawn of garden and landscape design for the middle classes in Britain and in the heyday of 1960s London.
Brookes was influenced by painters such as Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholsen, and brought abstract and modernist principles to garden design.[2] He espoused the concept that a garden's design should be based first and foremost on the needs of its occupants, taking it out of the realm of the grand garden traditions which were labour-intensive, expensive, and high maintenance. He is the author of over two dozen books, including Room Outside and John Brookes, Master Class, that have been translated into several languages and has taught and lectured in venues around the globe, including Iran, Argentina, Japan, Russia, and the US.
In 2004 Brookes was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his for contributions to Garden Design and Services to Horticulture.
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Beginning as a Modernist and working with Dame Sylvia Crowe, Brenda Colvin, Geoffrey Jellicoe and other notable architects and landscape architects, Brookes came of age in the dawn of garden and landscape design for the middle classes in Britain and in the heyday of 1960s London.
Brookes was influenced by painters such as Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholsen, and brought abstract and modernist principles to garden design.[2] He espoused the concept that a garden's design should be based first and foremost on the needs of its occupants, taking it out of the realm of the grand garden traditions which were labour-intensive, expensive, and high maintenance. He is the author of over two dozen books, including Room Outside and John Brookes, Master Class, that have been translated into several languages and has taught and lectured in venues around the globe, including Iran, Argentina, Japan, Russia, and the US.
In 2004 Brookes was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his for contributions to Garden Design and Services to Horticulture.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_...]
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November 16, 2021
Update 11/16/21: this is a decent “also by” from Brookes. I think one of the things I like about him is how he links and bridges Britain between the world wars—his father was wounded in WWI—with current times. My own literary and cultural influences come from then too, so I feel like we can talk. Brookes was trained in the heyday of mid century modernism and also studied classic garden types.
Also excellent. I am currently reading everything by this author I can get my hands on.
Also excellent. I am currently reading everything by this author I can get my hands on.
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