{"id":12508,"date":"2025-07-15T20:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T20:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12508\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T20:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T20:51:04","slug":"a-new-book-cultivates-a-rich-survey-of-300-magnificent-gardens-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12508\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Book Cultivates a Rich Survey of 300 Magnificent Gardens \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the humble backyard plot to the royal Water Theatre Grove at Versailles, gardens have long been a source of sustenance, beauty, and spiritual communion. A forthcoming book from Phaidon sprouts from this history as it celebrates how these sites of joy and grandeur endure throughout the ages.<\/p>\n

The Contemporary Garden<\/a> travels to 300 green spaces across 40 countries, surveying the everlasting link between horticulture, nature, and aesthetics. Included in its 300-plus pages are private and public spaces in a wide array of styles, from wild plots in urban centers to impeccably trimmed topiaries to designs that prize water features as much as foliage.<\/p>\n

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While the book peers into some gardens only accessible to a few, many of its pages highlight well-trodden areas open to the public, like New York\u2019s elevated Little Island, designed by Heatherwick Studio. Perhaps unsurprisingly, several spaces also double as outdoor galleries\u2014including the High Line in Manhattan\u2014or are artworks themselves. In the latter category is Gabriel Orozco\u2019s The Orozco Garden, which bridges sculpture and horticulture through intricately laid brickwork and overgrown grasses at South London Gallery.<\/p>\n

Bridging natural sciences with art and design, The Contemporary Garden showcases how, even in this increasingly digital age, green spaces continue to be one of humanity\u2019s perennial fascinations.<\/p>\n

Slated for release in late September, The Contemporary Garden is available for pre-order in the Colossal Shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"aKim Wilkie for the 10th Duke of Buccleuch, Orpheus, Boughton House, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, 2009. Photo by Kim Wilkie<\/p>\n

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\"aLouis Benech and Jean-Michel Othoniel, Water Theatre Grove, Ch\u00e2teau de Versailles, Versailles, France (2015). Photo \u00a9 EPV\/Thomas Garnier<\/p>\n

\"aDominique and Beno\u00eet Delomez, Jardin int\u00e9rieur \u00e0 ciel ouvert, Athis-de-l\u2019Orne, Normandy, France, (2000\u201311). Photo courtesy of Beno\u00eet and Dominique Delomez<\/p>\n

\"aErik Dhont, Bonemhoeve, Damme, West Flanders, Belgium, (2005). Photo \u00a9 Jean-Pierre Gabriel<\/p>\n

\"aGabriel Orozco, The Orozco Garden, South London Gallery, London, England, (2016). Photo by Andy Stagg<\/p>\n

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