Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect

by Judith B. Tankard

Book Overview

Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (she was the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the traditional social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants.

Many of her clients were members of the highest echelon of society with estates in Newport, the Berkshires,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580935931
• ISBN13: 9781580935937
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 11.2"