Mediterranean Landscape Design: Vernacular Contemporary - Hardcover

One of the dozens of sites documented in Louisa Jones's 'Mediterranean Landscape Design'.... [Ian Hamilton] Finlay's Proven al fantasy is a testament to the universality of his art, as much at home among olive and lavender terraces as the flinty hills of Scotland.

Illustrated with hundreds of exceptional photographs by award-winning photographer Clive Nichols, and drawing on nearly forty years of exploration by Louisa Jones, this book offers a fresh vision of the Mediterranean, past and future, linking cultural diversity and natural balance as discovered in its gardens, landscape design, literature, art and architecture. Divided into eleven sections built around themes such as stoneworks, earthworks, woodworks and seascapes, each of the featured works observes the logic of place as determined by climate, geology, flora and fauna, architecture and land use. The book includes well-known designers such as Heidi Gildemeister, Mary Keen, Arnaud Maurières and Eric Ossart, Jacqueline Morabito, Paolo Pejrone and Nicole de Vésian, as well as land artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Ian Hamilton Finlay and herman de vries. Glorious locations include the romantic landscaped ruins of Ninfa in Italy; hidden gardens in Venice; a ‘lichen boulevard’ in the Ardèche mountains; trees turned into sculptures in Provence; hardscaping in southern Morocco; and the quarries at Bibémus that once inspired Paul Cézanne. It comes complete with a listing of useful contact details for practitioners and sites to visit.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION · MEDITERRANEAN VERNACULAR LANDSCAPE ART AND DESIGN · MOUNTAINS · TIME RECYCLED Digne-les-Bains, Haute Provence | Andy Goldsworthy and herman de vries NATURAL HISTORY Sentier des Lauzes, Ardèche | Domingo Cisneros and Gilles Clément · STONEWORKS QUARRY Strongilo and Kanonas, Corfu | Rothschild family and Mary Keen HILLSIDE TERRACING Fleur de l’Air, Provence | Ian Hamilton Finlay; Clos Pascal and La Louve, Provence | Nicole de Vésian · EARTHWORKS · PIGMENTS Bibémus, Provence | Philippe Deliau, ALEP Agency RAMMED EARTH Al Hossoun, Southern Morocco | Arnaud Maurières and Eric Ossart · WOODWORKS GLADE AND GROVE Fleur de l’Air, Provence | Ian Hamilton Finlay; The Grove, French Riviera | Jacqueline Morabito TREES Mas de Michel, Le Terrain and La Carmejane, Provence | Marc Nucera · CLIPPED GREENERY TAPESTRIES La Louve, Provence | Nicole de Vésian BLACK AND WHITE The Hamlet and The Grove, French Riviera | Jacqueline Morabito · MATORRAL, MAQUIS, MEADOW AEGEAN PHRYGANA OLIAROS, Antiparos, Greece | doxiadis+ TUSCAN MACCHIA Argentario, Tuscany | Paolo Pejrone MEADOW AND MATORRAL Mèze, Languedoc | Olivier and Clara Filippi · FIELD GEOMETRIES CLASSICAL CLARITY Sa Vina Vella, Mallorca | Fernando Caruncho SOFT MINIMALISM Mas de Benoît, Provence | Alain David Idoux · GARDEN ANGLO-ITALIAN Ninfa, Lazio | Caetani family DESIGNER ITALIAN Bramafam, Piedmont | Paolo Pejrone MEDITERRANEAN HOME STYLE La Malherbe, French Riviera | Mireille Ferrari · SEASCAPES PLANETARY VISION Domaine du Rayol, French Riviera | Gilles Clément MEDITERRANEAN JAPANESE Peninsula Garden, Corsica | Erik Borja · EMPORIUM MASKS The Gardens of Venice I COSMOPOLITAN VERNACULAR The Gardens of Venice II · MESURA ROMANTIC CONTRADICTIONS Ninfa, Lazio | Caetani family ARCADIA IN MALLORCA Ariant, Mallorca | Heidi Gildemeister NOTES · BIBLIOGRAPHY · LIST OF ADDRESSES · ACKNOWLEDGMENTS · INDEX