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Avant Gardeners: fifty visionaries of the contemporary landscape by Tim Richardson
Category: Fiction
Now available in paperback, "Avant Gardeners" profiles the fifty most exciting contemporary landscape practices from around the world. With between four and six case studies for each designer, it presents an encyclopaedic look at the most advanced thinking in garden design and offers a rich archive for ...Show more
CHIHULY AT KEW by RICHARDSON TIM
Category: Home and Garden
Dale Chihuly's sculptures are some of the most immediately recognizable and internationally beloved. He revolutionized the Studio Glass movement and is credited as helping to elevate blown glass from craft to fine artform. However, most people come across Chihuly not within the walls of a museum, but ou ...Show more
Cambridge College Gardens by Tim Richardson; Clive Boursnell (By (photographer)); Marcus Harpur (By (photographer))
Category: Home and Garden
For students and alumni, their families, Cambridge locals and for lovers of private gardens, Tim Richardson's book on the most exquisite gardens in and around the university of Cambridge's colleges combines brilliant research and elegant prose with stunning photography by Clive Boursnell. Following on t ...Show more
English Gardens of the Twentieth Century by Tim Richardson
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
For over a century, Country Life has been an influential force in the world of garden design, chiefly as a result of its weekly articles on country houses and gardens illustrated with specially commissioned photography. The magazine's unrivalled archive of photographs is the key source for this comprehe ...Show more
Futurescapes: Designers for Tomorrow's Outdoor Spaces by Tim Richardson
Category: Fiction
"Futurescapes" is a major resource aimed at practitioners, enthusiasts and students in the realms of landscape, architecture, urban planning and design that profiles the fifty most exciting and innovative landscape and garden designers working today. From China and Australia to the USA and Europe, these ...Show more
GREAT GARDENS OF AMERICA by RICHARDSON TIM
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
An authoritative and superbly illustrated celebration of the great gardens of the United States and Canada. The gardens chosen for this book range from eighteenth-century landscape gardens such as Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in North Carolina, through twentieth-century creations such as the lakeside g ...Show more
Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooks by Tim Richardson
Category: Home and Garden
This intimate glimpse into the private sketchbooks of the worlds leading landscape and garden designers reveals a dazzling array of insights and ideas that will inspire the amateur and practitioner alike. Thirty-seven international designers carefully selected by the design critic behind the Chelsea Fri ...Show more
Oxford College Gardens by Tim Richardson
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
The gardens of Oxford's thirty or so colleges are surprisingly varied in style, age and size, ranging from the ancient mound in the middle of New College to the fine modernist design which is St Catherine's. The eighteenth-century landscape school is represented in the magnificent acreage of Worcester, ...Show more
Oxford College Gardens by Tim Richardson; Andrew Lawson (By (photographer))
Category: Home and Garden
From the bijou corners of Corpus Christi to the wide open lawns of Trinity, Oxford's gardens are full of surprises and hidden corners - not least the fellows' or masters' gardens, which are usually kept resolutely private. Take a tour of the stunning gardens of this prestigious British institution witho ...Show more
Sissinghurst: the Dream Garden by Tim Richardson; National Trust (As told to); Jason Ingram (By (photographer)); Dan Pearson (Foreword by)
Category: Home and Garden
Step inside the world's most famous garden and understand the strength of its attraction since is was bought and transformed by writer Vita Sackville West and diplomat Harold Nicholson in the 1930s. This unforgettable garden of rooms is influential today for its design, its exuberant planting, and its e ...Show more
Sweets by Tim Richardson
Category: unmapped
Synopsis: We are all, secretly or openly, obsessed with sweet things. This title takes in the whole world and all of history - from how the Aztecs mixed chocolate with blood in sweet libations to their gods to how modern sweet production is shrouded in the kind of secrecy which would make Willy Wonka bl ...Show more