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A romantic drama following Sabine, a strong-willed and talented landscape designer, who is selected to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape artist Andre Le Notre.
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"Throughout her long and storied life, Rachel Bunny Mellon's greatest passion was garden design. She and her husband, Paul Mellon, one of the wealthiest men in America, maintained homes in New York, Cape Cod, Nantucket, Antigua, and Upperville, Virginia, and she designed the gardens at all of them. She also designed gardens for some of her dearest friends, including the Rose Garden and the East Garden at the White House, at the request of President...
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This volume offers text, images, and garden plans based on artist and founder of French impressionist painting Claude Monet's spectacular gardens at Giverny. The author has included some 75 color photographs, along with color garden plans, transparent overlays for garden designs, and historical photographs. He discusses the development and history of Monet's Giverny estate and brings new insight to Monet's approach to gardening and design. Emphasizing...
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