Designing a garden : the Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum / Michael Van Valkenburgh ; with an essay by Laurie Olin.

Main entry:

Van Valkenburgh, Michael, author.

Title & Author:

Designing a garden : the Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum / Michael Van Valkenburgh ; with an essay by Laurie Olin.

Publication:

New York, New York : The Monacelli Press, [2019]

Description:

208 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Designing a garden -- Paths -- Plants -- Building a garden / Matthew Girard -- Getting lost -- The gardner gets a garden / Laurie Olin.

Summary:

"Designing a Garden" presents Michael Van Valkenburgh's concept and execution of the Monk's Garden, an intimate, walled site immediately adjacent to Isabella Stewart Gardner's Venetian palazzo on the Fenway. Devoted to horticulture and music as well as Old Master paintings and sculpture, Mrs. Gardner planted multiple gardens on the site herself. Van Valkenburgh's design aims to interpret the museum's meandering gallery layout, and the rich colors and textures of its idiosyncratic collection, in a contemporary landscape context. A small-scale, dreamlike woodland, the garden is composed of approximately sixty trees including Stewartia, paperbark maple, and gray birch, that establish a detail-rich palette of colors and textures suitable for intimate appreciation. Winding paths, paved in a striking combination of black brick and reflective mica schist, meander through the trees in the Olmstedian tradition that invites a gentle pace and contemplation. Van Valkenburgh's text explores the origins of his love of landscape and plants in his family farm in Upstate New York and moves through the designing of the Monk's Garden, focusing on the experiential nature of the process and the challenges and satisfactions of the small scale and the historic and cultural context

ISBN:

1580935524 (hardcover)
9781580935524 (hardcover)

Subject:

Van Valkenburgh, Michael Designs and plans.
Van Valkenburgh, Michael
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Landscape architecture Massachusetts Boston.
Gardens Massachusetts Boston Designs and plans.
Architecture du paysage Massachusetts Boston.
Jardins Massachusetts Boston Dessins et plans.
Gardens
Landscape architecture
Massachusetts Boston
Monk's Garden (Boston, Mass.)

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings

Added entries:

Olin, Laurie, writer of added text.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306938
Call No.: BIB 252481
Status: Available

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