The Professional Designer's Guide to Garden Furnishings The Professional Designer’s Guide to Garden Furnishings helps you meet the challenge by providing both visual inspiration and practical information about how to choose and where to find just about every kind of accessory a gar
| TITLE | : | The Professional Designer's Guide to Garden Furnishings |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.64 (830 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 1604692936 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 308 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2013-07-16 |
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Gardens don’t need just plants, paths, and walls; they need chairs, benches, cushions, arbors, containers, and artwork, too. But finding and choosing these accessories can be a challenge. The Professional Designer’s Guide to Garden Furnishings helps you meet the challenge by providing both visual inspiration and practical information about how to choose and where to find just about every kind of accessory a garden might need.
This comprehensive guide includes information on how furnishings are linked to architecture; offers tips and techniques for choosing furnishings based on comfort, scale, and proportion; and provides a survey of sixteen popular styles, including Craftsman, Midcentury Modern, and Contemporary. Vanessa Gardner Nagel, herself a professional garden designer as well as a nationally certified interior designer, also discusses the properties of
Editorial : From Booklist Great gardens are more than just the sum of their parts. Trees, shrubs, perennials, container plants: these constitute the cast of stars whose artistry is augmented by secondary players. From lounge chairs to dining tables, wooden benches to woven hammocks, the accoutrements of a garden setting should be as carefully selected as the plants they complement. A former interior designer, Nagel uses her discerning eye to apply the essential principles of form and function to style and materials in determining good exterior decor for the home landscape. With a goal of helping homeowners make informed choices that will enable them to select high-quality furnishings and accent pieces, and thus avoid wasting time, resources, and money, Nagel gives a thorough overview of architectural periods, contemporary trends, and material construction and maintenance. Chapters geared toward the
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