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0715_FINAL_384pp.indd 6 8/10/10 1:44:41 PM vii Introduction xiii Prologue. The Lure of the Porch in Summer: Privacy and Pleasure 1 Chapter One. Landscape Architects and Designers 6 Designing Women: In-Depth View of TwentiethCentury Women Landscape Designers 7 Beatrix Farrand and The Bulletins of Reef Point Gardens 13 The Private World of a Great Gardener: Rachel Lambert Mellon 28 “Make the Land Work for You”: Russell Page in America 32 Profile of Dan Kiley 38 Grounded in History: Deborah Nevins’s Landscapes 41 Private Visions: The Gardens of Michael Van Valkenburgh 43 A Cultivated Civilization: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon’s Drawings of Classical Gardens 51 Planting Plastic: Martha Schwartz Looks to Art for Inspiration 56 Resurrection: The Built Landscapes of George Hargreaves 59 A Twinkling Terrace that Reaches for the Stars: Kathryn Gustafson in New York and France 66 Landform Future: Laurie Olin and the Integration of Architecture and Landscape 69 0715_FINAL_384pp.indd 7 8/10/10 1:44:41 PM [3.239.59.193] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 14:45 GMT) c o n t e n t s viii A Feminist View of Landscapes: A Partnership with Nature 73 Chapter Two. Parks and Public Places 76 A Bouquet of British Parks: Liverpool, Edinburgh, and London 77 Central Park’s Bethesda Terrace and Its Restoration 82 Summer in Central Park 89 For This Movie, Step into the Garden 91 Rooftop Formal Gardens at Rockefeller Center 93 Hortus Conclusus: The Gardens at the Cloisters 96 The IBM Garden Plaza 99 A Crystal Palace: Final Portrait of the Palm House 106 Gardens Fit for a Queen 111 Hartford’s 1896 Rose Garden, Whose Ancestors Were Born in France 115 2,700 Roses Re-create Old Garden: The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden 117 A Victorian Gem Restored: The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory 120 A Centennial Bouquet: The Botanic Garden of Smith College, 1895–1995 124 The Rose Garden at the White House 131 A New Memorial Squanders a Sparkling Opportunity 133 The Green Gardens of Jerusalem: Parks, Squares, and Promenades 137 Garden Letter from Greece: The Agora 142 The Moonlight Garden at the Taj Mahal 151 A Rare Garden in Barbados: Andromeda Gardens 154 Along a Nature and Garden Trail in Bermuda 157 A Walk in the Park Around Jinji Lake 163 0715_FINAL_384pp.indd 8 8/10/10 1:44:41 PM ix c o n t e n t s Chapter Three. American 166 The Poetics of the American Garden 167 1680 Formal Garden Discovered in the South 172 A Historic Colonial Plantation Recovered from the Rough 174 Fairsted: At Home with Frederick Law Olmsted 177 At Old Westbury, Gracious Gardens 182 Stately Views: A 1920s Garden Inspired by the Villa d’Este 185 Mediterranean Light: A Classic Italian Garden in California 188 Wethersfield: In the Style of an Italian Villa Garden 191 The American Academy in Rome 195 The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: A Blend of Far Eastern and English Inspiration 197 Far East, Down East: A Classic Asian Landscape 207 A Cultivated Coast: The Garden at Somes Meadow 210 On Maine’s Coast, Vistas Are Cast in Stone 212 Autumn in New England 218 Chapter Four. British 220 The Painted Garden: William Kent’s Rousham 221 Painshill Park: Charles Hamilton’s Folly Garden 226 The Waterways of Castle Howard 232 Reclaiming Noble Gardens of the Towy Valley 238 Classic Garden Tames a Fierce Welsh Crag: Powis Castle 243 Buckhurst Park: From Humphry Repton to Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll 248 Lanning Roper’s English Gardens with a U.S. Flavor 250 Machine in the Garden: Charles Jencks’s Garden of Scottish Worthies 255 Sitting in the Garden: A History 258 0715_FINAL_384pp.indd 9 8/10/10 1:44:41 PM [3.239.59.193] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 14:45 GMT) c o n t e n t s x Chapter Five. French 264 The Gardens of Versailles 265 An Echo of a Memory: Recultivating the Tuileries 273 The Formal Farm: Pascal Cribier’s Vision of Rural Geometry 282 The Désert de Retz: Cultural History Through Architecture 285 Chapter Six. Japanese 292 Autumn in Japan 293 Japanese Screens and the Gardens of Kyoto 295 Balancing Act: A Contemporary Garden for Kyoto’s Oldest House 302 Tea and Empathy: The Japanese House, Shofuso, in Fairmount Park 305 Rice Paddy in the Sky: Rooftop Garden at the Mori Center 308 Plum Blossoms: The Third Friend of Winter 310 Chapter Seven. Flower Shows 318 Courson...