{"product_id":"the-complete-landscape-designs-and-gardens-of-geoffrey-jellicoe-9780500015964","title":"The Complete Landscape Designs and Gardens of Geoffrey Jellicoe","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Jellicoe has long been regarded internationally as the pre-eminent landscape architect of our time. The recipient of many honors  including a knighthood  he now ranks among the centurys leading artists in any medium. His working career spans more than six decades  and embraces a truly staggering variety of landscapes and gardens. Project by project  this authoritative monograph examines the definitive canon of Jellicoes work. Divided into three major sections  the book chronicles Jellicoes progress towards his remarkable late flowering after 1964  when he finally freed himself from the demands of running a formal practice to concentrate on developing his own unique vision and philosophy of mans relationship to his environment. The authors introduction provides an invaluable guide to the underlying vocabulary and idioms of Jellicoes work: water  viewpoints  axes  paths  routes  groves  landmarks  secret gardens  elevation and gradation. Over fifty projects  both planned and fully realized  are described in detail  often with a preamble by the author  followed by Jellicoes own comments  either drawn from his own unpublished papers or from his classic texts on landscape design. The projects include his masterworks: Shute House  Sutton Place  the Moody Gardens and the Atlanta Historical Gardens. Several complete designs have been specially photographed by Hugh Palmer to show the development of Geoffrey Jellicoes work over years of growth and change  notably at Ditchley  St. Pauls Walden Bury and Shute. Where available  Geoffrey Jellicoes own plans have been reprinted in full color  some on 6-page foldouts; many of these have never been reproduced in book form before. Michael Spens has enjoyed the benefit of considerable assistance from Geoffrey Jellicoe  whose own contribution to the book has been substantial. As a survey of the work of the centurys foremost landscape architect  this volume is as important a contribution to the literature of landscape and garden design as his own The Landscape of Man  also published by Thames and Hudson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650467127349,"sku":"ByrdShop_0500015961","price":344.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780500015964.jpg?v=1781797160","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-complete-landscape-designs-and-gardens-of-geoffrey-jellicoe-9780500015964","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}