6/3/2023 0 Comments Beatrix farrand![]() ![]() Heavily illustrated with archival images and photographs of her gardens at their peak- many taken especially for this book, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect also displays beautiful watercolor wash renderings of her designs, now preserved at College of Environmental Design of the University of California at Berkeley. Dumbarton Oaks Lover’s Lane Pool credit Roger Foley Dumbarton Oaks Boxwood Path credit Roger Foley In her public work, she adapted this design strategy to create paths and plantings that define the character of the space and the circulation through it. Deeply influenced by the English garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, Farrand was known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders planted in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers. Her best-known design is the landscape at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., originally a private residence with extensive grounds and now a research center for Harvard University surrounded by a naturalistic park restored and maintained by the National Park Service. Ultimately, her portfolio extended to college and university campuses, including Princeton, Yale, and the University of Chicago, and public gardens, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden among them. Moongate, The Eyrie, Seal Harbor, Maine credit Larry Ledermanīorn into a prominent New York family (she was Edith Wharton’s niece), Farrand designed lavish gardens for the leaders of society, including the Harknesses, the Rockefellers, and the Blisses. View through the Moon Gate to theīuddha Shakamuni, Seal Harbor, Maine credit Larry Lederman The sunken flower garden framed by the A long-awaited updated edition of the 2009 definitive monograph, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect chronicles the life and work of one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture. Today the scope of her work and her influence on the profession is widely acknowledged, and her gardens are being studied, restored, and opened to the public. Beatrix Farrand in California 1943Ĭredit Beatrix Farrand Society Archives Rose Arbor at Percy Chubb garden credit Environmental Design Archives, Beatrix Farrand Collection (1955-2), University of California, Berkeleyīeatrix Farrand, the only female founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects, is one of the most important landscape architects of the early twentieth century. Tankard, ‘ Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect‘ takes readers on a tour of Farrand’s finest works, celebrating her influence on succeeding generations of women landscape architects. ![]() Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Farrand’s birth and written by landscape historian and preservation consultant Judith B. Her gardens have been photographed at their peak especially for this book, and these lush illustrations are complemented by beautiful watercolor wash renderings of her designs, now preserved at the library of the University of California at Berkeley.The definitive study to chronicle one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture has been published by The Monacelli Press, New York, USA. ![]() Deeply influenced by the English landscape designer Gertrude Jekyll, Farrand was known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders planted in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers. Perhaps her best-known work is the extensive garden at Dumbarton Oaks, originally a private residence and now a research institute of Harvard University. ![]() Many of her clients were members of the highest echelon of society with estates in Newport, the Berkshires, and Maine, but Farrand ultimately became a consultant for university campuses, including Yale and Princeton, and for public gardens, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at The New York Botanical Garden. Born into a prominent New York family (she was the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the traditional social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants. Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. ![]()
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