Beatrix Farrand s Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks

Beatrix Farrand s Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks
Author: Diane K. McGuire
Publsiher: Dumbarton Oaks
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1980
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0884021025

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The Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks was prepared as a resource for those charged with maintenance of the gardens following their acquisition by Harvard University in 1941. Beatrix Farrand here explains the reasoning behind her plan for each of the gardens and stipulates how each should be cared for in order that its basic character remain intact. Her resourceful suggestions for alternative plantings, her rigorous strictures concerning pruning and replacement, her exposition of the overall concept that underlies each detail, and the plant lists that accompany her discussion of each garden make this a volume of interest to every student, practitioner, and lover of landscape design.

Beatrix Farrand

Beatrix Farrand
Author: Judith B. Tankard
Publsiher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: STANFORD:36105124110615

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Presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants. Many of her clients were members of the highest 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. Perhaps her best-known work is Dumbarton Oaks, originally a private residence and now a research institute of Harvard University. Known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers, her gardens have been photographed at their peak for this book, and complemented by watercolor wash renderings of her designs.--From publisher description.

Beatrix Farrand

Beatrix Farrand
Author: Judith B. Tankard
Publsiher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2022-03-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781580935937

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The only monograph to chronicle the life and work of one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture. Beatrix 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. Today the scope of her work and her influence on the profession are widely acknowledged, and her gardens are being studied, restored, and opened to the public. 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. Born 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. 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. 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. 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. In her public work, she adapted this design strategy to create paths and plantings that define the character of the space and the hecirculation through it. 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. The new edition includes updated images that reflect the current state of gardens including the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden, the International House Courtyard at the University of Chicago, Garland Farm (Farrand’s last home and garden, which has recently been restored), Dumbarton Oaks, Dumbarton Oaks Park (which was not included in the first edition), among others. The book concludes with a comprehensive list of Farrand’s commissions and the gardens open to the public, providing direction for further study and exploration. It also features a new preface outlining the milestones in research since the first edition's publication, updated details about ownership and renovations of many properties, and a revised bibliography including articles and books published over the past ten years. Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Farrand's birth and written by landscape historian and preservation consultant Judith B. 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.

The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand

The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand
Author: Beatrix Farrand
Publsiher: UPNE
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009
Genre: Gardens, American
ISBN: 9781584657934

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Landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand's written work, in print for the first time

Beatrix

Beatrix
Author: Jane Brown
Publsiher: Viking Adult
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1995
Genre: Gardens
ISBN: UOM:49015002194463

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The biography of Beatrix Jones Farrand, one of America's greatest landscape gardeners.

Beatrix Jones Farrand 1872 1959

Beatrix Jones Farrand  1872 1959
Author: Diane Kostial McGuire,Lois Fern
Publsiher: Dumbarton Oaks
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1982
Genre: Landscape architects
ISBN: 0884021068

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Beatrix Farrand s American Landscapes

Beatrix Farrand s American Landscapes
Author: Diana Balmori,Diane Kostial McGuire,Eleanor M. McPeck
Publsiher: Sagapress
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1985
Genre: Landscape architects
ISBN: UOM:39015013194082

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Best known for her work at Princeton, Yale, and Dumbarton Oaks, Farrand (1872-1959), the niece of Edith Wharton, was a landscape designer. She synthesized European traditions to create an American style.

Contemporary Garden Aesthetics Creations and Interpretations

Contemporary Garden Aesthetics  Creations and Interpretations
Author: Michel Conan
Publsiher: Dumbarton Oaks
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0884023257

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Using a variety of critical perspectives, this text demonstrates a renewal of garden design and directions for garden aesthetics, analysing projects by Fernando Chacel (Brazil), Andy Goldsworthy (Great Britain), Charles Jencks (Great Britain), Patricia Johanson (U.S.) and Bernard Lassus (France).