This intimate glimpse into the private sketchbooks of the world's leading landscape and garden designers reveals a dazzling array of insights and ideas that will inspire the amateur and practitioner alike. Thirty-seven international designers carefully selected by the design critic behind the Chelsea Fringe have opened their sketchbooks specially for this publication. Featuring hundreds of drawings and illustrations as diverse as their creators, Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooksis a continual source of inspiration for planting, design elements, colour schemes and materials, encouraging weekend gardeners, design professionals and students to draw their ideas by hand.

A revealing glimpse into the private sketchbooks of the world's leading landscape and garden designers

About the Author
Tim Richardson is the former landscape editor at Wallpaper*, gardens editor at Country Life and founding editor of New Eden. He is the author of numerous books on landscape design, including The Vanguard Landscapes and Gardens of Martha Schwartz, Avant Gardeners, Futurescapes and Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooks, published by Thames & Hudson.

Reviews
'Stimulating in its exposition of how professionals use pencils, pens, chalk, crayons and paints as part of their armoury of design tools' - Garden Design Journal
'A fantastic record of how garden designers work today' - Gardens Illustrated
'Intriguing ... the range of projects is vast' - English Garden
'A book you will want to pore over and become absorbed in ... greatly inspirational' - The Garden



Book Information
ISBN 9780500518045
Author Tim Richardson
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight(grams) 1850g