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Author Mallet, Robert.

Title Envisioning the garden : line, scale, distance, form, color, and meaning / Robert Mallet ; drawings by Yves Poinsot ; translation by Bryan Woy.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011]
©2011

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  712.6 MAL    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  712.01 MAL    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  712 MAL    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  712.01 MALLET    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  712.01 MALLET    Check Shelf
Description 143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Note Originally published in French as: L'Optique des jardins: elargir l'espace, libérer l'esprit.
Includes index.
Summary Mallet shows how the basic elements of design-- line, scale, distance, shape, color, and other sensory associations-- can open the viewer's outlook toward board perspectives or, conversely, can lock us up in a cage.
Contents Lines and punctuation -- Relative scale -- Distance -- Forms, textures, and lighting -- Colors -- The other senses in action.
Subject Gardens -- Design.
Landscape architecture.
Added Author Poinsot, Yves.
Added Title Optique des jardins. English
ISBN 9780393733426 paperback
0393733424 paperback
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