Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood

by Tankard, Judith; Wood, Martin

• ISBN13: 9781910258057
• ISBN10: 1910258059
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-08-01
• Publisher: Pimpernel Press

Summary

Back in print after almost 20 years, this Pimpernel Garden Classic edition has been redesigned and includes new photography

First published in the UK by Sutton Publishing in 1996 (and by Timber Press in the US), this Pimpernel Classic edition has been redesigned and includes new photography. Gertrude Jekyll was probably the most influential garden designer of the early 20th century, and this book explores her life and work at the home she created for herself at Munstead Wood in Surrey, England. Taking as a basis her own photograph albums, scrapbooks, and notebooks, and the recollections of contemporaries from Edith Wharton and Vita Sackville-West to William Robinson and Henry Francis du Pont, it describes not only the building and development of the house and garden but also her skills both in the arts and as a businesswoman and her collaborations with architects—preeminently Edwin Lutyens, but also Oliver Hill and M.H. Baillie Scott. This revised edition includes many photographs that have never previously been published.

Author Biography

Martin Wood is a noted interior designer whose previous books include John Fowler: Prince of Decorators, Nancy Lancaster: English Country House Style, and Sister Parish: American Style. Judith Tankard is an architectural and garden historian who taught at the Landscape Institute at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for more than 20 years. She is the award-winning author of many books on landscape history including Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House. Her books have been supported by grants from the NEA, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the Hubbard Educational Foundation. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.