Gardens of Obsession

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Tardens of Obsession are personal realizations of all-consuming fantasies in the garden. Some are high art, others are folksy or even kitsch — all are exciting and extraordinary dreams that have become a reality.
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VISIONARY, MAGICAL, BEAUTIFUL, mysterious, witty and bizarre describe these gardens of obsession conceived by gardeners driven by their dreams and fantasies. Landscape and garden designers Gordon Taylor and Guy Cooper have found more than 150 gardens throughout the world - ail works of wonder made by obsessives from all walks of life and all economic resources.
These gardens are metamorphoses of dreams into garden realities. Some are based on myths and allegories from the ancient world; others stem from personal fancies given form from one genus of plant or a particular material. Some reflect high culture; others are folksy or kitsch.
Gardens of Obsession lie in the jungles of Mexico, in a back garden of mosaics in Chartres, France,... Tovább

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Tardens of Obsession are personal realizations of all-consuming fantasies in the garden. Some are high art, others are folksy or even kitsch — all are exciting and extraordinary dreams that have become a reality.
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VISIONARY, MAGICAL, BEAUTIFUL, mysterious, witty and bizarre describe these gardens of obsession conceived by gardeners driven by their dreams and fantasies. Landscape and garden designers Gordon Taylor and Guy Cooper have found more than 150 gardens throughout the world - ail works of wonder made by obsessives from all walks of life and all economic resources.
These gardens are metamorphoses of dreams into garden realities. Some are based on myths and allegories from the ancient world; others stem from personal fancies given form from one genus of plant or a particular material. Some reflect high culture; others are folksy or kitsch.
Gardens of Obsession lie in the jungles of Mexico, in a back garden of mosaics in Chartres, France, in dew-swept lawns in Oxfordshire, extravagent topiaries in Ecuador, trees lovingly fashioned into seats and fantastic shapes in Oregon, and a garden of 1500 roses in Somerset planted in date order of their introduction to western Europe.
Each one of these extraordinary gardens is the realization of a person's innermost, all-consuming and achieved fantasy.

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ordon Taylor and Guy Cooper are the
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J London. Amongst their many projects are the design master plan and installation of Sir Elton John's 36-acre estate in Berkshire, topiary boxwood shapes based on the torso of the Michelin man at Sir Terence Conran's Bibendum restaurant, and the renewal of the early 18th century formal gardens, Studley Royal House, Yorkshire.
Annually, they create several gardens for town-houses and flats in central London. They have designed a diversity of gardens in Ireland, France, Spain, New Orleans, New York City and throughout the United Kingdom.
Guy Cooper frequently lectures at horticultural organizations worldwide, including the LInited Kingdom, the United States and Australia.
They have written numerous articles and books on herbs, gardens and garden history, including English Herb Gardens, English Water Gardens, and in 1996, one of the first major books on contemporary international private garden design, Paradise Transformed: The Private Garden for the 21st Century.
Front jacket: Nuns walking in the Topiary Garden ami Cemetery, Tulcan. Ecuador hy Abel Castillo.
Back jacket: 'Brushing the morning dew' by Chris Parsons in The Vale Park, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Great Britain. Authors' photograph hy Curtice Taylor. Vissza