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Envisioning the garden : line, scale, distance, form, color, and meaning /

Mallet shows how the basic elements of design-- line, scale, distance, shape, color, and other sensory associations-- can open the viewer's outlook toward board perspectives or, conversely, can lock us up in a cage.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mallet, Robert
Other Authors: Poinsot, Yves
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2011]
Subjects:
Gardens > Design.
Landscape architecture.
Description
Summary:Mallet shows how the basic elements of design-- line, scale, distance, shape, color, and other sensory associations-- can open the viewer's outlook toward board perspectives or, conversely, can lock us up in a cage.
Item Description:Originally published in French as: L'Optique des jardins: elargir l'espace, libérer l'esprit.
Includes index.
Physical Description:143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9780393733426 (pbk.)
0393733424 (pbk.)