Italy's Private Gardens: An Inside View
Author(s): Helena Attlee
Helena Attlee and her photographer husband Alex Ramsay have been visiting Italian gardens, photographing them and writing about them, for two decades. In recent years Helena has been leading garden tours to Italy, arranging for clients to enjoy lunch with garden owners, chat with gardeners and discuss designs with landscape architects. These behind-the-scenes glimpses are the inspiration for Italy's Private Gardens, a book built around conversations with people intimately associated with some of Italy's most intriguing private gardens. Owners, designers and gardeners talk freely about their personal experiences, the problems they have faced and overcome. Each garden is introduced with a brief history. With stunning photographs taken by Alex Ramsay, Italy's Private Gardens takes in 19 gardens in Piedmont, the Veneto, Tuscany, Lazio, Umbria and, unusually, Sicily, and includes interviews with Arabella Lennox-Boyd at Palazzo Parisi, Jane and Francesco da Mosto at their retreat in the Venetian lagoon, Principessa Maria Carla Borghese at Il Biviere and Gil Cohen and Paul Gervais at Villa Massei.
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Helena Attlee is an author and journalist who has made the garden and its history her special subject. Her books include The Gardens of Portugal Italian Gardens: A Cultural History and Gardens of Wales (all publishd by Frances Lincoln). She lectures widely, writes for a wide range of journals and magazines, and leads specialist garden tours. She lives in Presteigne, Powys, with her husband, the photographer Alex Ramsay. Alex Ramsay is well known as an award-winning photographer of architecture, gardens and landscapes. His work has appeared in leading magazines worldwide and illustrates many books including Helena Attlee's Italian Gardens: A Cultural History and Gardens of Wales. To visit Alex Ramsay's website click here
CONTENTS Preface PIEDMONT 1 Paolo Pejrone garden Paolo Pejrone 2 Villa San Remigio Contessa Silvia Bonacossa Sella 3 Villa Cicogna Mozzoni Contessa Cicogna Mozzoni VENETO 4 Da Mosto garden Jane and Francesco da Mosta TUSCANY 5 Villa Poggio Torselli Ada Segre and Gianfranco Luzzetti 6 Villa Massei Gil Cohen and Paul Gervais 7 Villa La Pietra Nick Dakin-Elliot and Gino and Dino Morghenni 8 Castiglione del Bosco Philip Adiutori and Marco Battaggia 9 La Ferriera Contessa Giuppi Pietromarchi UMBRIA 10 La Foce Benedetto Origo 11 La Scarzuola Brian Pentland and Marco Solaro LAZIO 12 La Torrecchia Stuart Barfoot and Dan Pearson 13 Palazzo Parisi Arabella Lennox-Boyd 14 La Luccica Gianlupo Osti 15 Ninfa Esme Howard and Lauro Marchetti SICILY 16 San Giuliano Rachel Lamb 17 Il Biviere Principessa Maria Carla Borghese 18 Giardino Pezzino Rossella Pezzino 19 Villa Paterno Ettore Paterno Index Acknowledgements
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- : Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
- : Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
- : 1.606
- : 01 September 2010
- : 295mm X 250mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 January 2021
- : 01 January 2021
- : books
Special Fields
- : Helena Attlee
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : 712.60945
- : 208
- : 150 colour photographs