From small artists’ gardens to grand estates, Iconic Gardens showcases 86 of the world’s most iconic domestic gardens of the 20th and 21st centuries, offering an unprecedented overview of the modern garden. With gardens from every continent and climate and on every scale, including Christopher Lloyd’s Great Dixter in the UK,...
From small artists’ gardens to grand estates, Iconic Gardens showcases 86 of the world’s most iconic domestic gardens of the 20th and 21st centuries, offering an unprecedented overview of the modern garden. With gardens from every continent and climate and on every scale, including Christopher Lloyd’s Great Dixter in the UK, Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga in Sri Lanka, Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico, Charles Jenck’s Garden of Cosmic Speculation in Scotland, Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden in Italy, the Sítio Burle Marx in Brazil, Longwood Gardens, Lotusland, and The Noguchi Museum in the US, and many more. These are the most admired and visited modern gardens from Arts and Crafts through Modernism to the naturalistic movement of the present day. Written and curated by expert garden design writer Tim Richardson, this big, beautiful, and definitive resource is packed with inspiration for garden lovers everywhere and is sure to be an essential source of garden design inspiration for decades to come.
