{"title":"Louisa Jones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouisa Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the art and design of gardens with a particular focus on Mediterranean landscapes. Her works delve into the unique beauty and cultural heritage of this region, offering inspiration for both garden enthusiasts and professionals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect richly illustrated studies that combine practical insight with a deep appreciation of garden aesthetics. From historic designs to contemporary interpretations, her books celebrate the harmony between nature and creative vision. \u003cem\u003eNicole de Vésian - Gardens\u003c\/em\u003e exemplifies her interest in influential garden designers and their enduring legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nicole-de-vesian-gardens-by-louisa-jones-9782330120375","title":"Nicole de Vésian - Gardens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNewly updated edition of the first book in French and English devoted to Nicole de Vésian and her work\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After a career as a designer working for the great design houses, especially Hermès, Nicole de Vésian (1916-1996) moved to Provence and created her first garden. Her green and grey tapestry-gardens soon inspired gardeners and landscapers around the world. Today, few gardens have been imitated as readily as those of Nicole de Vésian, because, writes Louisa Jones, 'she has a feeling for space like musicians have a feeling for music.' Her finest work was La Louve, her own garden in Bonnieux, a hilltop village in the Luberon area of Provence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the narrow terraces around her Bonnieux home, Nicole de Vésian created her own very personal garden in a minimal but far from austere style, composed mainly of heath-land plants (varieties of thyme, lavender, rosemary, rockrose and box tree), in which she pruned all her plants to cushion shapes of varying, yet superbly proportioned sizes. Nicole de Vésian advises us to 'learn to listen to the soil.' Her plant sculptures are always somehow a reference to the wild hills of the surrounding countryside, reflecting an age-old Mediterranean landscape mindset, with a distinctly modern twist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The work is also a tribute to Nicole de Vésian and her life. Her close friend, Louisa Jones, shares her own thoughts on the work of this atypical creator, accompanied by accounts from her friends and pupils: Christian Lacroix, the nursery owner Jean-Marie Rey, the landscape artists Arnaud Maurières, Éric Ossart and Marc Nucera, as well as the garden historians Roy Strong and John Brookes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362933489900,"sku":"9782330120375","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/17175323483017.jpg?v=1772904015"},{"product_id":"mediterranean-gardens-by-louisa-jones-9780992290092","title":"Mediterranean Gardens","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMediterranean gardening offers a way of living in harmony with the earth without contrived effects or heavy spending. Born of long human experience on the land, it is frugal and fruitful, serves many purposes and gives many pleasures, year-round. Today, it adapts easily to our growing ecological awareness, to individual creativity and community sharing. Above all, it perpetuates a long-standing partnership between human beings and their environment, tested in Mediterranean countries for millennia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMediterranean cooking grew from peasant roots but has become fashionable today all over the world without loss of local diversity. More than a mere trend, it has been widely adopted because of its underlying, enduring practices: it is seasonal, local, healthy and flavourful, economical but capable of great refinement. Mediterranean gardening has much the same base and similar benefits. Like the cuisine, Mediterranean gardening offers an approach that can be adapted to all climates and budgets, for better, sustainable living in harmony with the environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMediterranean Gardens\u003c\/em\u003e by Louisa Jones explores this rich tradition, illustrating how these time-tested practices continue to resonate with modern sensibilities, encouraging a sustainable lifestyle that harmonises with nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471134802156,"sku":"9780992290092","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780992290092-mediterranean-gardens.jpg?v=1775235073"},{"product_id":"mediterranean-landscape-design-by-louisa-jones-9780500291115","title":"Mediterranean Landscape Design","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith hundreds of exceptional photographs by award-winning photographer Clive Nichols, and drawing on thirty years of exploration by Louisa Jones, \u003cem\u003eMediterranean Landscape Design\u003c\/em\u003e offers a fresh vision of the Mediterranean, linking gardens, landscape design, literature, art and architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCreative talents from many contexts meet here, such as Gilles Clément and Andy Goldsworthy, Nicole de Vésian and Ian Hamilton Finlay, Arnaud Maurières and Eric Ossart, Mary Keen, herman de vries, and Paolo Pejrone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday's artists, designers, architects, and gardeners explore vernacular materials, skills, and sites to produce extraordinary landscape art that affirms an ideal of partnership with nature. Whether in France, Greece, Italy, Morocco, or Spain, the logic of place is determined by climate, geology, flora and fauna, architecture, and land use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596971229420,"sku":"9780500291115","price":48.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/d92f4d5d9c13bf3a67b939c1da76c473.jpg?v=1777955216"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/louisa-jones.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}