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"The world's most exciting and ground-breaking gardens, many of them designed by influential modern landscape designers from around the world, have been beautifully captured by a leading landscape photographer. Accompanied by informative and evocative text, this guide offers a visual source of imaginative ideas that gardeners can adapt to their own space. Thematic chapters capture the essence of each garden--classical and modern, town and country,...
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Some are well-loved favorites, visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year; others are tranquil oases of calm known only to a privileged few. Yet each garden has something to teach us about the history of garden design -- and a glimpse of what we can expect from the gardens of tomorrow.
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Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was also its first great architect. The Jeffersonian Classical style has been so influential that, along with Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson, Jefferson is one of the three most recognized architects in American history. Although never formally trained as an architect, Jefferson intensively studied the architecture of Paris when he resided there as minister to France and read extensively...
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Here, for the first time, architectural photographer Guillaume de Laubier takes the reader on a privileged tour of twenty-three of the world's most historic libraries, representing twelve countries and ranging from the great national monuments to scholarly, religious, and private libraries: the baroque splendor of the Institut de France in Paris; the Renaissance treasure-trove of the Riccardiana Library in Florence; the majestic Royal Monastery in...
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