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In the same mode haute couture resists everyday use ( unless you happen to have slim rosehip and a fat billfold ) , the exquisitely contrive landscapes in Charlotte M. Frieze ’s Modern book are more about lofty inspiration than exact replication . individual Paradise : Contemporary American Gardens(Monacelli , $ 65 ) , features prop festooned with retractable glass paries , knavishly placed bowlder , and re - engineered waterways . Priceless aspect abound — as do granite weir and infinity pools — and there seems to be no conclusion to the United States of America for Corten steel .
Photo by : Terry Moore / Monacelli .
The 41 abidance featured are mostly from the country ’s coasts , but illustrious exceptions include Joe Eck and the late Wayne Winterrowd ’s design for a two - tiered Kentucky garden enfold by corrugated metal wall and an Idaho garden designed by Ron Lutsko Jr. that features aboriginal monoculture plantings and an ethereal logic gate made of metal squares that does reduplicate tariff as a light filter and fine art installation .
The book feature 41 residences .
The trope in the book are appropriately riotous ( fritter away by such well - known lensman as Tim Street - Porter , Marion Brenner , and Billy Cunningham ) , but Frieze ( who is herself a record landscape painting architect and the longtime garden editor for the now - defunct House & Garden magazine ) accompanies the photos with brief but well - think essays that bet to put each house decorator ’s plan into a conceptual frame . She note such influence as the midcentury sheer toward biomorphic frame and the contemporary environment - witting inclination to steward the land rather than visit on it . Her observations , along with an foundation from Charles Birnbaum , founder of the Cultural Landscape Foundation , bring out this to be an artistic preaching in java - table - Christian Bible clothing .
Photo by : Paul Hester / Monacelli .
Photo by : Charlotte M. Frieze / Monacelli .
