Furnishing the Garden
A garden is not complete without furnishings in the well decorated garden room. Function and form - important elements in the garden.
Antique Garden Ornament
Barbara Israel
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- From the Publisher: "The ultimate in garden style right now is antique garden ornaments."-Art & Auction Nothing adds drama to an outdoor space like a magnificent marble fountain or an impressive stone statue. With more and more collectors seeking out these fine pieces, there is a genuine need for this beautiful book-the first history of antique garden ornament in America ever published. The author presents a wealth of newly discovered information on American gardens and their ornament from 1740 to 1940. The superb colorplates, photographed especially for this book, show many historic American gardens for the first time. A black-and-white catalogue section, which serves as a collector's guide to some 300 individual objects, is followed by three essential appendixes, including a never-before-published list of more than 130 American and European garden ornament makers. 400 photographs, 100 in full color, 12 line drawings, 811/2 x 11" Barbara Israel is a highly regarded authority on garden ornament and one of the foremost dealers in the field. She lives with her family in New York City. Mick Hales is one of the best-known landscape and garden photographers working today. He lives in Carmel, New York. Mark Hampton, who died in 1998 shortly after writing the preface to this book, was an eminent and nationally known New York City interior designer.
Architecture in the Garden
Tom Christopher
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- Book Description: The elements of garden architecture—paths, walls, gates, fences, terraces, sheds, lighting, furniture, waterworks, and art—together form the backbone of any well-designed garden. In this beautifully illustrated and accessible book, legendary landscape architect James van Sweden explains how to design and build a garden like a professional. He leads his readers on a tour through some of his most exquisitely designed gardens—in the country, in the city, in the suburbs, and by the shore. “When it comes to planning a comfortable and rewarding garden,” van Sweden writes in his Introduction, “the challenges that confront the owner of an estate or a weekend cottage are often substantially the same. The principles and techniques used for organizing a large site work equally well in a more modest setting.”
Each case study highlights a particular architectural element, breaking it down into practical ideas that any gardener can apply to his or her own garden or yard. The book includes dozens of detailed schematic drawings that can be used to build many of the elements described by the author, along with an extensive, illustrated glossary. Architecture in the Garden is sure to inspire you with its many practical ideas on how to domesticate your landscape and design an outdoor space that suits your taste as well as your lifestyle.
Garden Structures
Linda Joan Smith
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- Book Description: What separates the special garden from an ordinary one is not only what we plant in it, but also how we shape it. Build a wall with stone. Raise a trellis for the roses. Edge the herb bed with wattling. Be ambitious and erect an arbor for afternoon tea. Each of these is a garden structure-an element that has the power to define a garden's mood, guide its uses, anchor it in time, and deepen its meaning.
Equal parts wish book and how-to, Garden Structures marries inspiration with the nitty-gritty of design, materials, and methods to help every gardener create and carry out plans that will transform dirt, plants, and dreams into an outdoor home. Illustrated with over 200 exquisite color photographs and instructional line drawings, Garden Structures ranges from the simplest to the most involved ways to create a framework on which a garden grows. Here are structures to define boundaries: gates, fences, walls, edgings. Structures that give a garden lift: trellises, arbors, pergolas. Structures, such as paths and walkways, that shape the garden underfoot. And structures for living: patios, decks, terraces, greenhouses. Complementing each section are dozens of sidebars, from "Bamboo Barriers" to "What to Plant Between the Cracks" to "The Osage Orange" and "Paving Particulars."
Making Arbors & Trellises: 22 Practical & Decorative Projects for Your Garden
Marcianne Miller
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- Back Cover Copy: Expand your growing space, make your garden more attractive and interesting, and show off your favorite flowers and vegetables in new ways by building beautiful and practical arbors and trellises. Using either standard-dimension lumber or rustic materials, such as logs, branches, and bamboo, you'll be able to make everything from an Arts and Crafts Arbor to a Handy Folding Screen Trellis. These attractive structures introduce variety to your garden, making room for spectacular flowering vines to thrive along with ground covers and hedges.
The Outdoor Living Room : Stylish Ideas for Porches, Patios, and Pools
Martha Baker
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- Book Description In the summer months and year-round in warmer climates, Americans love spending time outdoors. More and more, people are treating the outdoor spaces on their properties as true extensions of their homes, turning porches, pools, patios, decks, and gardens into outdoor living spaces that serve the same functions as indoor rooms. In The Outdoor Living Room: Stylish Ideas for Porches, Patios, and Pools, acclaimed author Martha Baker offers more than forty-five striking examples of this enlightened approach to outdoor decorating.
The Outdoor Living Room is divided into six chapters, each representing a specific type of outdoor style: Classic, Rustic, Romantic, Modern, Whimsical, and In Town. Six or seven different locations are featured in every chapter, each contributing a different idea or novel aspect of the same style. A multipaged “Components” section appears at the end of each chapter focusing on important elements of outdoor decorating, such as paving and lighting, followed by a heavily illustrated “Ideas” spread with tips on achieving a particular look. None of the magnificent spaces in this book has ever been published before; they range from a Southeast Asian–inspired tropical garden in Florida to a Japanese tea garden atop a New York City roof, from a grand wraparound porch on a classic home facing Lake Michigan to a thoroughly modern all-white patio near Miami. The Outdoor Living Room also includes an extensive resource section, illustrating and describing garden furniture, architectural and landscape elements, and decorative items. Packed with more than 350 full-color photographs, The Outdoor Living Room is at once a practical sourcebook and an inspirational delight.
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