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Envisioning the Garden: Line, Scale, Distance, Form, Color, and Meaning

by Mallet, Robert

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What style to give a garden and how best to lay it out are perennial puzzles for creators of gardens. Gardener/designer Robert Mallet shows how the basic elements of design--line, scale, distance, shape, color, and other sensory associations--can open the viewer's outlook toward broad perspectives or, conversely, can lock us up in a cage. Reviewing all these elements, Mallet explains what really works, offering a range of practical ideas that can be adapted to visually enlarge space and liberate the mind. He illustrates his ideas in 160 beautiful photographs and the skillful drawings of architect Yves Poinsot.

Mallet was for over twenty years in charge of Le Bois des Moutiers, a park created by his grandfather in Normandy, one of the most beautiful gardens in France, where he was able to put his ideas to the test within the context of a masterpiece of scenic design.

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  • May 9, 2011 Pub Date:
  • 0393733424 ISBN-10:
  • 9780393733426 ISBN-13:
  • English Language