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In the same way haute couture resists casual exercise ( unless you materialize to have slim hip and a fat billfold ) , the exquisitely plan landscapes in Charlotte M. Frieze ’s novel book are more about grand inspiration than exact replica . Private Paradise : Contemporary American Gardens(Monacelli , $ 65 ) , features properties festoon with retractable chalk walls , artfully placed boulders , and re - engineered waterway . Priceless views abound — as do granite weirs and infinity pools — and there seems to be no end to the uses for Corten steel .
Photo by : Terry Moore / Monacelli .
The 41 residency boast are mostly from the area ’s coasts , but notable exceptions include Joe Eck and the late Wayne Winterrowd ’s pattern for a two - tiered Kentucky garden enclosed by corrugate alloy walls and an Idaho garden designed by Ron Lutsko Jr. that sport native monoculture plantings and an ethereal logic gate made of metallic element squares that does duplicate obligation as a wanton filter and prowess induction .
The book features 41 abode .
The prototype in the record book are appropriately lush ( hit by such well - known photographer as Tim Street - Porter , Marion Brenner , and Billy Cunningham ) , but Frieze ( who is herself a registered landscape designer and the longtime garden editor for the now - defunct House & Garden magazine ) accompanies the photo with abbreviated but well - considered essay that look to place each designer ’s plan into a conceptual frame . She notes such influence as the midcentury trend toward biomorphic shapes and the contemporary environment - conscious inclination to steward the Din Land rather than impose on it . Her observance , along with an introduction from Charles Birnbaum , founder of the Cultural Landscape Foundation , unwrap this to be an esthetic discussion in java - table - book clothing .
Photo by : Paul Hester / Monacelli .
exposure by : Charlotte M. Frieze / Monacelli .
