{"product_id":"beatrix-farrand-garden-artist-landscape-architect-9781580935937","title":"Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2022 by the American Society of Landscape Architects\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps her best-known work is the extensive garden at Dumbarton Oaks, originally a private residence and now a research institute of Harvard University. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith B. Tankard\u003c\/b\u003e is a landscape historian, preservation consultant, and the author or co-author of ten books on historic gardens and garden designers, most recently \u003ci\u003eGardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement\u003c\/i\u003e. Other books include \u003ci\u003eEllen Shipman and the American Garden \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the J. B. Jackson Book Prize) and three works on Gertrude Jekyll. Tankard taught at the Landscape Institute of Harvard University for more than twenty years and served as a board member of the Beatrix Farrand Society. She is a frequent lecturer on landscape history and a contributor to the British journal \u003ci\u003eHortus\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Monacelli Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645762867474,"sku":"9781580935937","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_77be7677-cc4d-41cf-aef5-0e9f2c686809.jpg?v=1733161800","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beatrix-farrand-garden-artist-landscape-architect-9781580935937","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}