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The midcentury modern landscape / Ethne Clarke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Layton, Utah : Gibbs Smith, 2017Description: 222 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1423645804
  • 9781423645801
Subject(s):
Contents:
1. To live in a new world -- Introduction -- Frank Lloyd Wright and finding a language for modern architecture and landscape -- Bauhaus bows out -- Landscape and plantsmanship in England and Europe -- West Coast modernism and outdoor living -- 2. Make it midcentury -- Introduction -- Contrasts in design -- Bold approaches -- Make it midcentury, but make it yours -- Sheltering: screen and shade -- Defining places -- A plan with plants -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Photo credits -- Author biography.
Summary: "The Midcentury Modern Landscape explores the origins of midcentury modern garden design for the home, revealing how designers at the time blurred the divisions between indoors and outdoors, creating gardens that were for living, a style that went on to inspire contemporary gardens around the world. The Midcentury Modern Landscape is a fresh guide for those seeking bold approaches to redefine their outdoor space, or wishing to learn more about the history of mid century modern aesthetics."--Publisher's website.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 712.6 C597 Available 33111009197506
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Midcentury Modern Landscape explores the origins of midcentury modern garden design for the home, revealing how designers at the time blurred the divisions between indoors and outdoors, creating gardens that were for living, a style that went on to inspire contemporary gardens around the world.

The Midcentury Modern Landscape is a fresh guide for those seeking bold approaches to redefine their outdoor space, or wishing to learn more about the history of mid century modern aesthetics.

First published in the United Kingdom as The Mid-Century Modern Garden by Frances Lincoln, an imprint of The Quarto Group.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. To live in a new world -- Introduction -- Frank Lloyd Wright and finding a language for modern architecture and landscape -- Bauhaus bows out -- Landscape and plantsmanship in England and Europe -- West Coast modernism and outdoor living -- 2. Make it midcentury -- Introduction -- Contrasts in design -- Bold approaches -- Make it midcentury, but make it yours -- Sheltering: screen and shade -- Defining places -- A plan with plants -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Photo credits -- Author biography.

"The Midcentury Modern Landscape explores the origins of midcentury modern garden design for the home, revealing how designers at the time blurred the divisions between indoors and outdoors, creating gardens that were for living, a style that went on to inspire contemporary gardens around the world. The Midcentury Modern Landscape is a fresh guide for those seeking bold approaches to redefine their outdoor space, or wishing to learn more about the history of mid century modern aesthetics."--Publisher's website.

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