{"product_id":"gertrude-jekyll-at-munstead-wood-9781914902192","title":"Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst published in 1996, this Pimpernel Classic edition has been redesigned and includes new photography.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was probably the most influential garden designer of the early twentieth century. In this classic work Judith Tankard and Martin Wood explore her life and work at Munstead Wood, the Arts and Crafts style house in Surrey, designed for her by Edwin Lutyens, where she lived and gardened from 1897 until her death. Here she exercised her knowledge of architecture and local building skills, and her passion for form, grouping and colour was given full scope in the garden which she designed and worked from scratch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking as a basis Gertrude Jekyll's own photographs, scrapbooks and notebooks, and the recollections of contemporaries from Edith Wharton and Vita Sackville-West to William Robinson and Henry Francis Du Pont, the authors describe not only the building and development of the house and garden but also Jekyll's skills both in the arts and as a businesswoman, and her collaborations with architects including Lutyens, Oliver Hill and M.H. Baillie Scott, among many others.\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 an architectural and garden historian. She taught at the Landscape Institute of Harvard University for more than 20 years until her retirement in 2008. She is the author of many books on landscape history including \u003ci\u003eGertrude Jekyll and the Country House\u003c\/i\u003e (Rizzoli, 2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Wood\u003c\/b\u003e is a noted interior designer and writer on interior decoration. Previous books include \u003ci\u003eNancy Lancaster: English Country House Style\u003c\/i\u003e (Frances Lincoln, 2005), \u003ci\u003eJohn Fowler: Prince of Decorators\u003c\/i\u003e (Frances Lincoln, 2007) and \u003ci\u003eSister Parish: American Style\u003c\/i\u003e (Frances Lincoln, 2011) and \u003ci\u003eOn the Fringe\u003c\/i\u003e, with Imogen Taylor (Pimpernel Press, 2016). Martin Wood lives in Yorkshire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gemini Adult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51179967545618,"sku":"9781914902192","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ff3d1f80-b5a6-46a1-80b6-bfafb96753e7.jpg?v=1744380358","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gertrude-jekyll-at-munstead-wood-9781914902192","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}