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[Guy Cooper, Gordon Taylor, Dan Kiley] ✓ Mirrors of Paradise: The Gardens of Fernando Caruncho ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Mirrors of Paradise: The Gardens of Fernando Caruncho Caruncho's gardens range from small urban spaces to grand country estates, and his design trademarks include geometric grids, rolling waves of the shrub escallonia, refined and playful pavilions and gazebos, calm reflecting pools, and vistas that capitalize on the contrasts inherent in his plant palette. In their inventive and evocative fusion of the historic and contemporary, Caruncho's garden designs are masterful compositions that exemplify the formal garden for the new millennium.. Now back

Mirrors of Paradise: The Gardens of Fernando Caruncho

Title : Mirrors of Paradise: The Gardens of Fernando Caruncho
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Rating : 4.79 (559 Votes)
Asin : 1580930719
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 176 Pages
Publish Date : 2015-03-07
Language : English

. They have designed gardens in Ireland, France, Spain, the United States, and throughout Great Britain; they have also written numerous articles and books on herbs, gardens and garden history, including Paradise Transformed: The Private Garden for the Twenty-First Century. in London. Gordon Taylor and Guy Cooper are the principals of Landscape Design Ltd

A Study Of Landscape As A Facet Of The Imagination Dr Lawrence Hauser Mirrors of Paradise is a truly inspired presentation of a diverse sampling of Fernando Caruncho's architectural genius writ large on the landscape. A highly imaginative gardener by disposition, Caruncho possesses an idiosyncratic eye for wrinkles in the formal geometry of what is usually mundane. And the capacity to ingeniously comment on what he observes through design innovations which exhibit both wit and poignancy. To take but one example of this phenomen. Inspirational designs beth couet Did a paper on Fernando Caruncho and this book was my go to for thorough explanations of his designs. Wonderful photos. He is an interesting person and designer. Book can serve as inspiration for those looking to design landscapes with geometric forms

Caruncho's gardens range from small urban spaces to grand country estates, and his design trademarks include geometric grids, rolling waves of the shrub escallonia, refined and playful pavilions and gazebos, calm reflecting pools, and vistas that capitalize on the contrasts inherent in his plant palette. In their inventive and evocative fusion of the historic and contemporary, Caruncho's garden designs are masterful compositions that exemplify the formal garden for the new millennium.. Now back in stock, this highly sought after monograph represents the gardens and landscapes of the Spanish designer Fernando Caruncho. Caruncho draws inspiration from a wide spectrum of precedents—the garden-academies of ancient Greek philosophers as well as important historic gardens in Spain, Italy, France, and Japan; in Mirrors of Paradise, Caruncho discusses his design philosophy and influences in a substantial interview with the authors. Renowned internationally for serene compositions based on timeless principles of natural forms and geometry, Caruncho has recently completed two landscapes in the United States, one in the rolling farmland of New Jersey and the other in Florida

Influenced by the ancient Greeks, whose gardens were mystical places intended to attract the gods, Caruncho translates these grand ideals into gardens on an equally grand scale. All rights reserved. Page by page, the viewer is drawn into Caruncho's world of serenity and harmony, grandeur and grace. Ochre courtyard walls explode with fiery brilliance. If Caruncho's name is relatively unknown outside his native Spain, all that is about to change with Cooper and Taylor's monograph, the first, which introduces Caruncho in an in-depth intervie

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