The Midcentury Modern Landscape

The Midcentury Modern Landscape

<p><i>The Midcentury Modern Landscape</i> explores the origins of midcentury modern garden design for the home, revealing how designers at the time blurred the divisions between indoors and outdoors, creating gardens that were for living, a style that went on to inspire contemporary gardens around the world.<p> <p><i>The Midcentury Modern Landscape</i> is a fresh guide for those seeking bold approaches to redefine their outdoor space, or wishing to learn more about the history of mid century modern aesthetics.</p> <p><b>Ethne Clarke</b> is an award-winning journalist, former garden editor of <i>Traditional Home,</i> and contributing editor for <i>House & Garden</i>. Well-known as the author of a number of best-selling books on practical gardening, design and landscape history, she holds a Master of Philosophy from the faculty of Fine Art, De Montfort University, England. Her research has involved a close study of architectural history between the Arts and Crafts period and early Modernism, and this has been a guiding influence on the renovation of her house and garden in Colorado―a small midcentury modern ranch built in 1958.</p>