The Muses Of Gwinn

Author : Robin S. Karson
Publisher : Sagapress
ISBN 13 : 9780810942929
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muses of Gwinn written by Robin S. Karson and published by Sagapress. This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwinn, originally the home of Cleveland industrialist and philanthropist William Gwinn Mather, remains one of the best-preserved of the American country estates created during the period leading up to World War II. Its grounds on the shores of Lake Erie retain their formal gardens, lawns, fountains and garden pavilions.

Author : Robin S. Karson
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
ISBN 13 : 9780898310344
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muses of Gwinn written by Robin S. Karson and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her exploration of Gwinn in its social, artistic, and historic contexts adds immeasurably to American garden literature.

Author : Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022466
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature and Ideology written by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume explore the broad range of ideas about nature reflected in twentieth-century concepts of natural gardens and their ideological implications. They also investigate garden designers' use of earlier ideas of natural gardens and their relationship to the rich model that nature offers.

Author : Robert F. Dalzell
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 146685166X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House the Rockefellers Built written by Robert F. Dalzell and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What it was like to be as rich as Rockefeller: How a house gave shape and meaning to three generations of an iconic American family One hundred years ago America's richest man established a dynastic seat, the granite-clad Kykuit, high above the Hudson River. Though George Vanderbilt's 255-room Biltmore had recently put the American country house on the money map, John D. Rockefeller, who detested ostentation, had something simple in mind—at least until his son John Jr. and his charming wife, Abby, injected a spirit of noblesse oblige into the equation. Built to honor the senior Rockefeller, the house would also become the place above all others that anchored the family's memories. There could never be a better picture of the Rockefellers and their ambitions for the enormous fortune Senior had settled upon them. The authors take us inside the house and the family to observe a century of building and rebuilding—the ebb and flow of events and family feelings, the architecture and furnishings, the art and the gardens. A complex saga, The House the Rockefellers Built is alive with surprising twists and turns that reveal the tastes of a large family often sharply at odds with one another about the fortune the house symbolized.

Author : Robin Karson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820350664
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warren H. Manning written by Robin Karson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warren H. Manning's (1860-1938) national practice comprised more than sixteen hundred landscape design and planning projects throughout North America, from small home grounds to estates, cemeteries, college campuses, parks and park systems, and new industrial towns. Manning approached his design and planning projects from an environmental perspective, conceptualizing projects as components of larger regional (in some cases, national) systems, a method that contrasted sharply with those of his stylistically oriented colleagues. In this regard, as in many others, Manning had been influenced by his years with the Olmsted firm, where the foundations of his resource-based approach to design were forged. Manning's overlay map methods, later adopted by the renowned landscape architect Ian McHarg, providedthe basis for computer mapping software in widespread use today. One of the eleven founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Manning also ran one of the nation's largest offices, where he trained several influential designers, including Fletcher Steele, A. D. Taylor, Charles Gillette, and Dan Kiley. After Manning's death, his reputation slipped into obscurity. Contributors to the Warren H. Manning Research Project have worked more than a decade to assess current conditions of his built projects and to compile a richly illustrated compendium of site essays that illuminate the range, scope, and significance of Manning's notable career with specially commissioned photographs by Carol Betsch.

Author : Judith B. Tankard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082035208X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ellen Shipman and the American Garden written by Judith B. Tankard and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Shipman's remarkable life and fifty of her major works, including the Stan Hywet Gardens in Akron, Ohio; Longue Vue Gardens in New Orleans; and Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University. Richly illustrated, this expanded edition reveals her ability to combine plants for dramatic impact and create spaces of the utmost intimacy.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
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Download or read book Landscape Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Guy Wilson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813923482
Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Re-creating the American Past written by Richard Guy Wilson and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although individually and collectively Americans have many histories, the dominant view of our national past focuses on the colonial era. The reasons for this are many and complex, touching on stories of the country's origins and of the founding fathers, the privileged position in history granted the thirteen original colonies, and the ways in which the nation has adjusted to change and modernity. But no matter the cause, the result is obvious: images and forms derived from and related to America's colonial past are the single most popular form of cultural expression. Often conceived solely in architectural terms, from the red-brick and white-trimmed buildings that recall eighteenth-century James River estates to the clapboarded saltboxes that recall early New England, Colonial Revival is in fact better understood as a process of remembering. In Re-creating the American Past, architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson and a host of other scholars examine how and why Colonial Revival has persisted in modern times. The volume contains essays that explore Colonial Revival expressions in architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, decorative arts, and painting and sculpture, as well as the social, intellectual, and cultural background of the phenomena. Based on the University of Virginia's landmark 2000 conference "The Colonial Revival in America," Re-creating the American Past is a comprehensive and handsome volume that recovers the origins, characteristics, diversity, and significance of the Colonial Revival, situating it within the broader history of American design, culture, and society.

Author : Charles A. Birnbaum
Publisher : Department of Interior Na Ces Heritage Preservation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneers of American Landscape Design II written by Charles A. Birnbaum and published by Department of Interior Na Ces Heritage Preservation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: