Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect by Robin Karson

Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect by Robin Karson

For sixty years, Fletcher Steele practiced landscape architecture as a fine art, designing nearly seven hundred gardens, from Boston to Detroit, from North Carolina to Canada. Often brilliant, always original, Steele's work is considered by many to constitute the essential link between nineteenth-century Beaux Arts formalism and modern landscape design.

A book to give for Christmas, or as the grandest of house presents; it's a book to keep as well... [Karson] has written a wonderful read and, in doing so, has revived an entire era in all its detail. Intelligent, makes the considerable volume of material accessible and clear. - Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians; ""Karson has done a magnificent job in integrating carefully chosen archival drawings and pictures with contemporary photographs of many gardens. Planting plans and plant lists are offered as additional information for many of the gardens with a comprehensive list of clients. We are given simultaneously a revealing account of one of America's greatest modern garden

Robin Karson is executive director of Library of American Landscape History. She is author and editor of numerous books about American landscape history.

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ISBN 13	9781558494138
ISBN 10	1558494138
Titel	Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect
Autor	Robin Karson
Serie	Lalh Designers And Places
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Massachusetts Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2003-08-31
Seitenanzahl	368
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