Beschreibung:

XV; 268 S.; zahlr. Illustr. (vorw. s/w); 28,5 cm. Originalleinen mit farb. illustr. Orig.-Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Exemplar; geringfügige Gebrauchsspuren; Vortitelblatt mit kl. priv. Widmung. - Englisch. - The modernist garden, which flourished in France between the 1910s and 1930s, vividly mirrored the geometries and cubist aesthetics familiar to the decorative and fine arts of the period. Created by architects and artists, these gardens were often conceived as tableaux in which plants played a role only as pigment or texture. This handsomely illustrated book by Dorothee Imbert presents for the first time-in word and image-a comprehensive study of these arresting architectonic gardens. Drawing on archives and photo collections in several countries, the author shows how designers used new materials and vocabularies to challenge gravity and a preconceived idea of nature and garden as a symbiotic system. She analyzes the innovative and highly formal garden designs at the 1925 Paris Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts: Robert Mallet-Stevens's sunken lawn beds with four perfectly identical trees of concrete planes; Gabriel Guevrekian's triangular garden in which time and motion were expressed by the revolution of a glass sphere, water jets, and the optical vibration of complementary color planes; and the garden of interior designer and bookbinder Pierre-Emile Legrain, where lawn resembled Moroccan leather, and flower beds the gilding of a book cover. In addition to examining architectonic garden strategies, the author discusses Le Corbusier's vision of landscape as a naturalistic foil to modernist architecture. This definitive study of the modern French garden adds significantly to our understanding of landscape architecture in this century. ... (Verlagstext) // INHALT : PREFACE ----- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ----- HENRI DUCHENE; ACHILLE DUCHENE ----- A RETURN TO FORMALISM ----- J.C.N. FORESTIER ----- PLANTS & PLANNING ----- GARDENS AT THE EXPOSITION ----- JARDIN REGULIER; JARDIN D'ARCHITECTURE ----- ANDRE VERA; PAUL VERA; JEAN-CHARLES MOREUX ----- MODERNITY & TRADITION ----- (u.a.m.) ISBN 0300047169