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The elegant garden : architecture and landscape of the world's finest gardens / Johann Kräftner.

By: Kräftner, Johann, 1951-.
Publisher: New York, NY : Rizzoli, 2012Description: 432 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.ISBN: 9780847839285 :; 0847839281 :.Subject(s): Gardens -- Design | Landscape gardening | Gardens -- Design -- Pictorial works | Landscape gardening -- Pictorial works
Contents:
The garden, a place of eternal life -- Arcadia's first rebirth, the Italian garden -- Ordered nature, the French garden -- The world as marvel and harmony, the Chinese garden -- From abstraction to meditation, the Japanese garden -- The designed landscape, the English garden -- Caprices of imagination, follies and pavilions -- Palaces without walls, orangeries and greenhouses -- The art of functional beauty, trellises, gazebos, and pergolas -- The art of beautiful cutting, topiary -- Rooms with sky, the courtyard garden -- Everyday oases, the small garden -- Dialogues between tradition and innovation, the new garden -- Index.
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection SB 472.45 .K73 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5081760
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"Originally published in German in 2012 by Christian Brandstätter Verlag, GmbH & Co KG, Wickenburggasse 26 A-1080 Vienna"--P. 432.

Includes index.

The garden, a place of eternal life -- Arcadia's first rebirth, the Italian garden -- Ordered nature, the French garden -- The world as marvel and harmony, the Chinese garden -- From abstraction to meditation, the Japanese garden -- The designed landscape, the English garden -- Caprices of imagination, follies and pavilions -- Palaces without walls, orangeries and greenhouses -- The art of functional beauty, trellises, gazebos, and pergolas -- The art of beautiful cutting, topiary -- Rooms with sky, the courtyard garden -- Everyday oases, the small garden -- Dialogues between tradition and innovation, the new garden -- Index.

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