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Hortus Conclusus

Gardens for Private Homes
By Chris van Uffelen
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Hortus Conclusus explores the enduring appeal of beautiful gardens as private sanctuaries and symbols of prestige. Showcasing projects by professional landscape and garden architects, this volume reveals how carefully composed elements, structures, and design principles create stylish and sophisticated gardens. The garden’s relationship with its surrounding architecture and environment is a central theme, with examples ranging from intimate urban backyards to expansive park-like estates across diverse climates.
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Format: Hardback
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This book is ideal for gardening enthusiasts, landscape architects, and homeowners interested in garden design that harmonises with architecture and environment. It offers inspiration and insight for those seeking to create or appreciate refined, well-planned outdoor spaces.

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This book shows the greened backyards of less than 20 square meters in size, in comparison to the park-like grounds of over 2,000 square meters.

Greened backyards of less than 20 square meters or park-like grounds of over 2,000.

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The desire for beautiful gardens is as strong as ever. One's own garden, as a private oasis of well-being and a place of prestige, can be much more than just lawn and flowerbed, path, and hedge.

The projects by professional landscape and garden architects presented in Hortus Conclusus demonstrate which elements, components, and structures, composed and conceived with care and sophistication, constitute stylish and convincing garden design.

The interaction with the surroundings, usually the house that belongs to the particular garden, always plays an important role. This interaction can sometimes be strictly geometrical in a near-natural environment, unpretentious in front of a luxury villa, or freely moving, loosening up minimalist architecture.

The size of the presented gardens from very different climatic zones ranges from a green backyard of less than 20 square metres to park-like grounds of over 2,000.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783037682692

Publisher: Braun Publishing AG

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 October 2021

Country: Switzerland

Imprint: Braun Publishing AG

Illustration: 400 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 1340g

Pages: 192

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Arts & Culture Chris van Uffelen Home & Garden Non-Fiction

About the Author

The core topic for Chris van Uffelen is the transfer of knowledge about design in all its manifestations. For more than twenty years the Dutch-German art historian has been publishing books as well as countless essays and articels on art, architecture, interior design and urban planning from antiquity to the present.

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