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Benedetta Origo - La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany - 9780812235937 - V9780812235937
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La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany

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Description for La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany Hardback. La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany offers a rare look at the majestic, romantic, and personal aspects of one of the loveliest and most bewitching places on earth. Editor(s): Hunt, John Dixon; Origo, Benedetta. Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Num Pages: 312 pages, 116 color, 65 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; AJ; AMV; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 262 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1740.

The gardens and estate of La Foce constitute one of the most important and best kept early twentieth-century gardens in Italy. Amid 3,500 acres of farmland in the countryside near Pienza, with sweeping views of the Tuscan landscape, La Foce was the childhood dream garden of the late writer Marchesa Iris Origo. Passionate about the order and symmetry of Florentine gardens, Origo and her husband, Antonio, purchased the dilapidated villa in 1924, soliciting the help of English architect and family friend Cecil Pinsent to reawaken the natural magic of the property. Pinsent designed the structure of simple, elegant, box-edged beds ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812235937
SKU
V9780812235937
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About Benedetta Origo
Benedetta Origo is a musician and owner of La Foce; Morna Livingston is Professor of Design, Drawing, and Vernacular Architecture at Philadelphia University; Laurie Olin is a Practicing Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and Principal of Olin Partnership; John Dixon Hunt is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

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A feast to the eyes and an excellent read.
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