Caroline Seebohm
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The whole world was about to change, and no one would be affected more deeply than Dorothea and Iris Crosby, sisters-identical twins-born to the wealth and social standing of New York City's Park Avenue. It was 1914, and while life in Manhattan seemed to center on grand balls and exotic parties, in Europe everything was coming undone. World War I was about to explode, and when it did it would involve many thousands of young Americans already heading...
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"On a single day in 1939, more than 30,000 people visited the Untermyer Garden--at the time, one of the world's grandest landscapes. Thirty years later, most of the site had been sold or abandoned. Who was the eccentric visionary behind the estate's original glory? What triggered the garden's decline and sparked its restoration? In Paradise on the Hudson, Caroline Seebohm brings to light the remarkable story of a larger-than-life figure lost mostly...
Author
Publisher
The Monacelli Press, a division of Phaidon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sleepy Cat Farm is the vision of one man, Fred Landman, who acquired the handsome Georgian Revival house and grounds in 1994. Deeply committed to the concept of harmony between house and garden, he has dedicated himself to the landscape to create a garden of which the house could be proud. Collaborating with Greenwich architect Charles Hilton and noted landscape architect Charles J. Stick and drawing inspiration from travels in Europe and Asia, Landman...
14) 20th century decorating, architecture & gardens: 80 years of ideas and pleasure from House & garden
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
