Victoria Summerley

Secret Gardeners (eBook, ePUB)

Britain's Creatives Reveal Their Private Sanctuaries
Illustrator: Rittson Thomas, Hugo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'The Secret Gardeners is a WONDERFUL book. Just beautiful. It will live, page open, on my coffee table.' Prue Leith (one of the Secret Gardeners) The Secret Gardeners is a captivating photographic portrait of the private gardening passions of 25 of the UKs foremost artists, designers, actors, producers, composers, playwrights, sculptors and musicians. It includes composers Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh; oligarch Evgeny Lebedev; entrepreneur Richard Branson; architect Anish Kapoor; actors Jeremy Irons, Rupert Everett, Griff Rhys Jones and Terry Gilliam; chef Prue Leith; musicians Ozzy Osbourne,Nick Mason and Sting; playwright Julian Fellowes; film director Paul Weiland; and designers Kirstie Allsopp and Cath Kidston. Accompanying meaty essays explaining the owners' inspiration and passion are stunningly-reproduced photographs revealing the beautiful gardens that the public rarely see. Amongst these gardeners you'll find the plantaholics, the scene-changers, the view makers, the weeders, the hot-colour fanatics and those who use their garden to retreat from public life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Frances Lincoln
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780711239661
• Artikelnr.: 50475094

Autorenporträt

Victoria Summerley is an award-winning garden journalist and ex-editor of the Independent newspaper in the UK. She lives in Bibury, Gloucestershire, the village once described by William Morris as 'the most beautiful village in the Cotswolds'.

Inhaltsangabe

Kirstie Allsopp
The Branson family
Daniel Chadwick
Gus Christie
Julian Clary
Christopher & Anne Evans
Rupert Everett
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Julian & Emma Fellowes
Terry & Maggie Gilliam
Jeremy Irons
Allen Jones
Anish Kapoor
Cath Kidston
Evgeny Lebedev
Prue Leith
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Cameron Mackintosh & Michael Le Poer Trench
Nick Mason
Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne
Griff Rhys Jones
Sting & Trudie Styler
Paul Weiland
Iwan & Manuela Wirth

Rezensionen

'These are sublime confections, graced with stone-edged rills, Italianate pergolas and intricate grass labyrinths. This is a highly enjoyable book - armchair garden visiting at its very best.' Gardens Illustrated