Materia. Other materials for the garden.
Beak in the air| N° d'inventaire | 23462 |
| Format | 21 x 28 |
| Détails | 204 p., publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Marseille, 2016 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782367441047 |
As garden centers increasingly feature manufactured, ready-to-use but impersonal products, this book is an invitation to reconnect with materials available in our immediate environment or directly from nature. Once essential elements in the design of Asian, Arab-Andalusian, or Western gardens, these modest materials—wood, stone, terracotta, glass, straw, or oxidized metal—can find a place of choice in all gardens, even the most contemporary.
While there are many books on gardening techniques, little importance is given to the elements that can structure a garden, delimit circulation spaces and highlight plants in an original way: fences and pergolas, planters and tontines, mulching, braiding, pleaching, etc. Using numerous practical examples, Patrick Genty and Alain Renouf offer a sensitive approach to the garden, both simple and ecological, highlighted by the photographs of Olivier Placet.
As garden centers increasingly feature manufactured, ready-to-use but impersonal products, this book is an invitation to reconnect with materials available in our immediate environment or directly from nature. Once essential elements in the design of Asian, Arab-Andalusian, or Western gardens, these modest materials—wood, stone, terracotta, glass, straw, or oxidized metal—can find a place of choice in all gardens, even the most contemporary.
While there are many books on gardening techniques, little importance is given to the elements that can structure a garden, delimit circulation spaces and highlight plants in an original way: fences and pergolas, planters and tontines, mulching, braiding, pleaching, etc. Using numerous practical examples, Patrick Genty and Alain Renouf offer a sensitive approach to the garden, both simple and ecological, highlighted by the photographs of Olivier Placet.