For 60 years Steele practiced landscape architecture as a fine art, designing nearly 700 gardens that form an important link between 19th-century Beaux Arts formalism and modern landscape design.

Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect: An Account of the Gardenmakers Life, 1885-1971

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Karson, Robin S.

Gardening & Landscape Design

Sagapress

The Muses of Gwinn tells the story of how this work of art was created, and still today reflects the style and economics of the United States during the early twentieth century. With its formal gardens, lawns, fountains, and pavilions on the shores of Lake Erie, Gwinn, originally the home of Cleveland industrialist William Mather, is one of the best preserved estates of the Country Place Era in America - a period from the turn of the century to the beginning of World War II. The exceptional quality of Gwinn's architecture and landscape reflect the hands of three of the period's most successful designers: Charles A. Platt, who combined his talents as artist, architect, and landscape architect to adapt the Italian villa to an American setting; Warren H. Manning, a leading plantsman and planner who began his career as an apprentice to Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.; and Ellen Biddle Shipman, who raised the art of garden design to extraordinary new heights - not unlike her British counterpart, Gertrude Jekyll. These were the muses of Gwinn. A near-complete set of correspondence, plant lists, and historical photographs chronicle the estate's development over more than two decades. Working from this previously unpublished archive, the author, Robin Karson, presents a richly detailed account in which the tension between formal and informal design principles, central to the estate's creation, are used to illustrate the larger picture of emerging styles in American landscape design. Her exploration of Gwinn in its social, artistic, and historic contexts adds immeasurably to American garden literature.

The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in a Garden Designed by Warren H. Manning, Charles A. Platt & Ellen Biddle Shipman

Arts & Photography

Hardcover edition, 115 b&amp;w illustrations, including archival photos and plans. Gorgeous title with decorated endpapers, part of the Library of American Landscape History Series, detailing art and nature in a garden setting, displaying massive architecture and design, using formal gardens, lawns, fountains, and pavillions.

The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in a Garden

History

Manning, Warren H.

Platt, Charles A.

Shipman, Ellen

Mather, William Gwinn

Library of American Landscape History

Americas

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