Empowered Gardens

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Architects and Designers at Home
What is it that sets the gardens and outdoor rooms of architects and interior designers apart? Is it the way they approach style and design, transcending fads and fashion? Is it their unique understanding of space and Hght?
The answer, quite simply, is all of these and more. From a tranquil urban town house garden in San Francisco to a rustic country cottage landscape outside Paris, more than 300 photographs taken outside the homes of internationally renowned architects and interior designers, both prominent and emergent, show the remarkable alchemy that occurs when their authoritative talent and sensibility are turned toward the residential garden and outdoor room.
Empowered Gardens offers a fascinating window into the home gardens and design philosophies of some of the interior design and architecture world's most influential talents.
Dr. Carol Soucek King has long been interested in the ability... Tovább

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Architects and Designers at Home
What is it that sets the gardens and outdoor rooms of architects and interior designers apart? Is it the way they approach style and design, transcending fads and fashion? Is it their unique understanding of space and Hght?
The answer, quite simply, is all of these and more. From a tranquil urban town house garden in San Francisco to a rustic country cottage landscape outside Paris, more than 300 photographs taken outside the homes of internationally renowned architects and interior designers, both prominent and emergent, show the remarkable alchemy that occurs when their authoritative talent and sensibility are turned toward the residential garden and outdoor room.
Empowered Gardens offers a fascinating window into the home gardens and design philosophies of some of the interior design and architecture world's most influential talents.
Dr. Carol Soucek King has long been interested in the ability of the arts to uplift and empower human life. To provide an ongoing forum for the arts, she has established The Institute of Philosophy and the Arts at her home in Pasadena, California. From there she has written^/ Home &¦ At Worl{: Architects' and Designers' Empowered Spaces (1993; first released as Empowered Spaces), and Furniture: Architects' and Designers' Originals (1994).
In 1995 Dr. King launched her acclaimed Creative Touch series—four books that focus on uses of specific materials in architecture and interior design: Designing with Tile, Stone & Bric/{; Designing with Wood; Designing with Glass; and Designing with Fabric. All of Dr. King's books demonstrate her belief in the crucial role played by the environmental design arts in i humankind's physical and
mental well-being.
As editor-in-chief from 1978 to 1993 oiDesigners West, at that time one of the world's leading interior design publications, Dr. King was credited with award-winning editorial pages. She has received accolades for distinguished service from the National Board of the American Society of Interior Designers and from the Los Angeles chapters ofthe American Institute of Architects and the International Society of Interior Designers.
Dr. King earned both a B.A and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. She also studied at Cambridge University in England. At Woodbury University in Burbank, California, her husband Richard King has established the Carol Soucek King lectureship in Design. Vissza