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Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooks

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Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooks offers an intimate glimpse into the creative process of thirty-seven renowned landscape designers, curated by Tim Richardson, Director of the Chelsea Fringe gardening festival. The book showcases a diverse array of preparatory sketchesβ€”from precise perspective drawings to abstract compositionsβ€”revealing how designers thoughtfully develop ideas through detailed notes on spacing, planting, materials, and colour schemes. It serves as both a practical guide and a visual inspiration for understanding the artistry behind garden and landscape design.
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Ideal for garden and landscape designers, art and design students, and enthusiasts interested in the creative planning behind outdoor spaces.

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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.

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

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Garden and landscape designers are adept at interpreting outdoor spaces and transforming them into creatively conceived environments. Their ideas rarely come spontaneously; rather, the thoughtful designer considers a space from different perspectives or for several seasons, working out spacing, planting, materials, and colour schemes in detailed preparatory sketchbooks.

For this book, Tim Richardson, Director of the acclaimed Chelsea Fringe gardening festival in London, has selected thirty-seven talented landscape designers who are notable for the immense energy and creativity of their preparatory work.

The best samples from the personal sketchbooks are presented here with concise profiles on their training, inspirations, and process.

From clear perspective drawings to more abstract, experimental compositions, and quick freehand squiggles on napkins to measured topographical mapping, many of which are works of art in their own right, Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooks is an insightful, practical guide that allows a peek into the world of leading landscape designers.

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Garden Design Journal calls the book 'stimulating in its exposition of how professionals use pencils, pens, chalk, crayons and paints as part of their armoury of design tools.' Gardens Illustrated praises it as 'a fantastic record of how garden designers work today,' while English Garden finds the range of projects 'intriguing.' The Garden describes it as 'a book you will want to pore over and become absorbed in… greatly inspirational.'

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500518045

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 October 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 297.0mm

Height: 220.0mm

Weight: 1840g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Tim Richardson is the former landscape editor at Wallpaper*, gardens editor at Country Life and founding editor of New Eden. He is the author of numerous books on landscape design, including The Vanguard Landscapes and Gardens of Martha Schwartz, Avant Gardeners, Futurescapes and Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooks, published by Thames & Hudson.

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