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The Gardens of Bunny Mellon

Linda Jane Holden Roger Foley Peter Crane

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English
Vendome Press
08 October 2018
"Throughout her long and storied life, Rachel ""Bunny"" Mellon's

greatest passion was garden design. She and her husband Paul

Mellon, one of the wealthiest men in America, maintained homes

in New York, Cape Cod, Nantucket, Antigua, and Upperville,

Virginia, and she designed the gardens at all of them. She also

designed gardens for some of her dearest friends, including the

Rose Garden and the East Garden at the White House, at the

request of President Kennedy, and the gardens at both the Paris

home and the château of couturier Hubert de Givenchy. All of

these gardens are featured in The Gardens of Bunny Mellon,

illustrated with Mellon's own garden plans, sketches, and

watercolors, as well as with archival photographs and specially

commissioned photographs of Oak Spring, the Mellon estate in

Upperville. Author Linda Holden's text is based on extensive

interviews with Mellon before her death in 2014."
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Imprint:   Vendome Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 310mm,  Width: 235mm, 
Weight:   2.180kg
ISBN:   9780865653511
ISBN 10:   0865653518
Pages:   308
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Linda Holden is the author of Presidents’ Gardens.Roger Foley is an award-winning garden and landscape photographer. Sir Peter Crane is the inaugural president of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Reviews for The Gardens of Bunny Mellon

Bunny Mellon was happiest weilding a pair of garden clippers. Even as a child, Mellon was drawn to landscape design. . . . Mellon's ingenious, often underappreciated body of work should be noticed, and this book is a valuable contribution to that end. --Flower Takes an insider's tour through the legendary tastemaker's influential green spaces. --Veranda It could be just one more envy-inducing look at how the 1% live, but instead The Gardens of Bunny Mellon is a tribute to a woman who found her passion in beautiful gardens. . . . The self-taught horticulturist didn't just create beautiful green oases in each of the family homes around the world, she also left her mark on some of the most famous gardens on the planet. --American Express Essentials The Gardens of Bunny Mellon reveals the horticulturalist's iconic oases, including her Oak Spring estate in Virginia and the White House Rose Garden. --Martha Stewart Living Mellon was the garden design master. She designed not only the gardens at all five of her homes spanning across the East Coast and beyond, but also the Rose Garden at the White House for President Kennedy and the formal and vegetable gardens of Hubert de Givenchy's Chateau du Jonchet. These lavish landscape designs are featured in The Gardens of Bunny Mellon, in addition to her own garden plans, sketches, watercolors and archival photographs. --Beach Modern Luxury For admirers of the inimitable style of Bunny Mellon, and the innate design flair that took her--without formal training--to the White House and Versailles, the upcoming book, The Gardens of Bunny Mellon, is a tome to treasure. --ArchitecturalDigest.com The Gardens of Bunny Mellon is part guide--with gorgeous photographs by Roger Foley that could make even the least inclined to go hunting for a trowel--part biography, and part social history. Mellon's passion is apparent throughout. --Vogue.com


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