Garden and Grove: Italian Renaissance Garden and the English Imagination, 1600-1750

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

John Dixon Hunt

Gardening & Landscape Design

London / Melbourne, J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd., 1986

Hunt, John Dixon, Wider Sea, The: A Life Of John Ruskin

The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskin

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Viking Adult

The Very Best of Vegetarian Cooking

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Thorsons

The Wider Sea : Life of John Ruskin

Biographies & Memoirs

Phoenix Giant

Hunt, John Dixon, Andrew Marvell: His Life And Writings

Andrew Marvell: His Life and Writings

Cornell University Press

The gardens and estate of La Foce constitute one of the most important and best kept early twentieth-century gardens in Italy. Amid 3,500 acres of farmland in the countryside near Pienza, with sweeping views of the Tuscan landscape, La Foce was the childhood dream garden of the late writer Marchesa Iris Origo. Passionate about the order and symmetry of Florentine gardens, Origo and her husband, Antonio, purchased the dilapidated villa in 1924, soliciting the help of English architect and family friend Cecil Pinsent to reawaken the natural magic of the property. Pinsent designed the structure of simple, elegant, box-edged beds and green enclosures that give shape to the Origos' shrubs, perennials, and vines, and created a garden of soaring cypress walks, native cyclamen, lawns, and wildflower meadows. It is, by all accounts, a remarkable achievement.
Today the garden is a place of unusual and striking beauty, a green oasis in the barren Siena countryside. Situated in the Val d'Orcia, a wide valley in southeastern Tuscany that seems to exist on a larger, wilder scale than the rest of the Tuscan landscape, it is run by Benedetta and Donata Origo, and is open to the public one day a week.
La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany is a contemplative, multifaceted study of the house, gardens, and estate of La Foce. It includes a historical essay and memoir by the daughter of La Foce's creators, Antonio and Iris Origo, along with photographs, sketches, and a critical analysis of the gardens. The volume not only focuses on the beauty of the gardens themselves and their indisputable merit as fascinating works of landscape architecture but also sees them within the context of both the larger Tuscan topography and the wider landscape of geography and history. The book will be a delight to armchair travelers, trade and landscape architects, gardeners, and those interested in Tuscan culture.

La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

Benedetta Origo

Laurie Olin

Morna Livingston

University of Pennsylvania Press

Landscape architecture is a unique discipline where art, nature and the city converge and enter into an exciting dialogue. Design methods and practice in landscape architecture form the focus of On the Nature of Things book, complemented by an analysis of the theoretical aspects of the subject. Perceptive portraits of 13 offices span the whole breadth of landscape design, from the post-ecological utopia of Michael Sorkin (New York/Vienna) to the urban pragmatism of the Roma Design group (San Francisco), from the ecological approach of the Philadelphia group Andropogon, also active in Japan, to the minimalist landscape art of Kathryn Gustafson (Seattle/London/Paris).

On the Nature of Things

Gavin Keeney

Allen S. Weiss

Architecture

Birkhauser

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