Brenda Colvin: A Career in Landscape
by: Trish Gibson

Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln, 1st, 2011, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 255 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Brenda Colvin (1897-1981) ranks with Sylvia Crowe and Geoffrey Jellicoe as a pioneer of twentieth-century landscape design in Britain. This first full account of her life and work demonstrates her importance. Early in her career Colvin visited the USA to see the new civic landscaping projects, especially the parkways. In England she transformed the landscapes of power stations, reservoirs, industrial sites, new towns and national parks and worked on private gardens. Her simple planting style and her ecological approach had enormous influence. NOTE: There is a very mild ripple/wave throughout the pages, otherwise a clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.