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Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon

Door Linda Jane Holden e.a.

Categorie
Tuin & Tuinieren
Boeknummer
#330661-KF26
Titel
Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon
Auteur
Holden, Linda Jane & Thomas Lloyd & Bryan Huffman
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
Layton, UT : Gibbs Smith
Jaar van uitgave
2020
ISBN10
1423655400
ISBN13
9781423655404
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original pictorial boards, profusely illustrated with colour photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting
A treasure trove of Bunny Mellon's garden design philosophy and advice from her personal archive.

Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon is for anyone who has enjoyed time spent in a garden, from aspiring garden makers to those who manage large estates. This collection is comprised of extracts from Bunny's own writings and garden notes, as well as photographs and drawings from her archive.

Chapters are organized by Atmosphere (sky, horizon, shadows), Climate, Light, Space, Shape, Maintenance, and more? readers will feel as if Bunny Mellon has come alongside as a gardening guide and friend.

Bunny Mellon was of the affluent class and mingled along with her husband, Paul Mellon, in the circles of the East Coast gentry of the Kennedy and Reagan eras. But Mrs. Mellon, as she was respectfully c... (Lees verder)alled by those professional gardeners who worked with her most, wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty in the rich soil of her family's Virginia farm. Beyond this, Bunny Mellon was known nationally and internationally as a style icon of her time, enjoying friendships with Givenchy, the Kennedys, and the like. Her personal passion was for design, and that was exhibited in her fashion and her garden.

A trusted author, Linda Holden learned that Bunny wanted to write a gardening book but never found the time. Searching the family's archive after Mrs. Mellon's death, the editors? whom all shared personal relationships with Bunny? discovered a trove of photographs, illustrations, and writings and have now turned it into the how-to gardening book Bunny had hoped to write.
Pagina's
176
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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