New Garden Design

Inspiring Private Paradises
by Zahid Sardar, photographs by Marion Brenner

A modernist interpretation of Roman stone furniture and freestanding walls punctuate the space behind a 1970s ranch house. A home designed by Bernard Maybeck is accented with a freehand composition of urns, cement pipes and rusty objects, as well as over a thousand species of plants. A grove of olive trees underplanted with rosemary and lavender fields gives personality to two acres surrounding a house designed by the Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta. These are just a few of the garden designs presented in this extraordinarily wide-ranging book.

Garden ideas spring from many sources, and new gardens today, abstract in design and with no seeming connection to the formalities of a paradise garden or its Persian, Indian or Greco-Roman antecedents, in fact echo them all. Thirty-eight garden projects and more than 200 color photographs provide inspiration for creating your own garden sanctuary.

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