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Gardens of Marrakesh

Door Angelica Gray

Categorie
Tuin & Tuinieren
Boeknummer
#336947-WC2X
Titel
Gardens of Marrakesh
Auteur
Gray, Angelica
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Frances Lincoln
Jaar van uitgave
2013
ISBN10
0711233454
ISBN13
9780711233454
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting
Nicknamed 'the rose among the palms', the thousand-year-old city of Marrakesh is characterised by its pink-coloured pise architecture and its deeply rooted tradition for gardens and green spaces. The majority of historic sites are inextricable from their gardens - or indeed are historic green spaces: the huge royal orchard pleasure-gardens of the Agdal were described by Monty Don as 'of international cultural importance on a par with Versailles or Villa d'Este'. Scores of traditional riads and hotels like the Mamounia, created by the French in 1923 on the site of an eighteenth-century royal residence, offer splendid gardens to the visitor. Yves Saint Laurent's Majorelle garden is an icon of modern garden design. The first book to be published on this fascinating subject, Gardens of Marrake... (Lees verder)sh champions the city's relevance today in a world of water scarcity and urban development and explores its green heritage, considering some twenty gardens both from an historic and cultural perspective.
Pagina's
128
Conditie
Redelijk — Dust jacket discoloured at spine, verso dust jacket seriously foxed, spine skew, slightly foxed on cut.
Prijs
€ 25,00

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