The Gardens of Bunny Mellon

Name: The Gardens of Bunny Mellon
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SKU: 9780865653511
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By Linda Jane Holden

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The Gardens of Bunny Mellon explores the life and legacy of Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, celebrated garden designer and wife of philanthropist Paul Mellon. The book showcases her stunning garden creations across multiple residences, including the White House Rose Garden and estates in New York and Virginia. Featuring Bunny Mellon's original plans, sketches, and watercolours alongside photographs, it offers a unique glimpse into her artistic vision and enduring influence in garden design.
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This book is ideal for enthusiasts of garden design, horticulture, and American history, as well as readers interested in the intersection of art and landscape. It will also appeal to those curious about the private lives of notable cultural figures.

Description

Throughout her long and storied life, Rachel "Bunny" Mellon's greatest passion was garden design. She and her husband Paul Mellon, one of the wealthiest men in America, maintained homes in New York, Cape Cod, Nantucket, Antigua, and Upperville, Virginia, and she designed the gardens at all of them.

She also designed gardens for some of her dearest friends, including the Rose Garden and the East Garden at the White House, at the request of President Kennedy, and the gardens at both the Paris home and the château of couturier Hubert de Givenchy. All of these gardens are featured in The Gardens of Bunny Mellon, illustrated with Mellon's own garden plans, sketches, and watercolours, as well as with archival photographs and specially commissioned photographs of Oak Spring, the Mellon estate in Upperville.

Author Linda Holden's text is based on extensive interviews with Mellon before her death in 2014.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780865653511

Publisher: Vendome Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 October 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Vendome Press

Illustration: 30 Illustrations, black and white; 300 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Photographs by Roger Foley
Foreword by Peter Crane

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 235.0mm

Height: 310.0mm

Weight: 2180g

Pages: 308

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Home & Garden Linda Jane Holden Non-Fiction

About the Author

Linda Holden is the author of Presidents’ Gardens.Roger Foley is an award-winning garden and landscape photographer. Sir Peter Crane is the inaugural president of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.