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Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooks

Tim Richardson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd

Published:5th Oct '15

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A revealing glimpse into the private sketchbooks of the world’s leading landscape and garden designers

Featuring hundreds of drawings and illustrations as diverse as their creators, this book intends to be a source of inspiration for planting, design elements, colour schemes and materials, encouraging weekend gardeners, design professionals and students to draw their ideas by hand.This intimate glimpse into the private sketchbooks of the world’s leading landscape and garden designers reveals a dazzling array of insights and ideas that will inspire the amateur and practitioner alike. Thirty-seven international designers carefully selected by the design critic behind the Chelsea Fringe have opened their sketchbooks specially for this publication. Featuring hundreds of drawings and illustrations as diverse as their creators, Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooksis a continual source of inspiration for planting, design elements, colour schemes and materials, encouraging weekend gardeners, design professionals and students to draw their ideas by hand.

'Stimulating in its exposition of how professionals use pencils, pens, chalk, crayons and paints as part of their armoury of design tools' - Garden Design Journal
'A fantastic record of how garden designers work today' - Gardens Illustrated
'Intriguing … the range of projects is vast' - English Garden
'A book you will want to pore over and become absorbed in … greatly inspirational' - The Garden

ISBN: 9780500518045

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1850g

320 pages