Books
- Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959) : fifty years of American landscape architecture byCall Number: SB470.F37 D85 1980ISBN: 0884021068Publication Date: 1982
- Beatrix Farrand's Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks byCall Number: SB466.U7 D853 1980ISBN: 0884020959Publication Date: 1980
- The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand by Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959) was among the first professional American women landscape gardeners. One of the founding eleven members of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Farrand believed in using native plant materials to connect the natural and designed landscape. Her papers are archived at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard's Arnold Arboretum. This volume offers a print version of most of her written work, which includes her gardening diary and a wide selection of essays. The volume also contains a bibliography of additional materials.Call Number: SB470.F37 F374 2009ISBN: 9781584657934Publication Date: 2009
- The Bulletins of Reef Point Gardens by Reef Point was Beatrix Farrand's house and garden in Bar Harbor, Maine. For 10 years, starting in 1946, she published The Reef Point Gardens Bulletin. Along with contributing writers, she documented the progress of the garden in a series of articles that cover all aspects of garden design and maintenance.Call Number: JOURNALS SB466.U7 B37abISBN: 0898310520Publication Date: 1997
- A Home of the Humanities by Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss were consummate collectors and patrons. After purchasing Dumbarton Oaks in 1920, they significantly redesigned the house and its interiors, built important new structures, added over fifty acres of planned gardens, hosted important musical evenings and intellectual discussions in their Music Room, and acquired a world-class art collection and library. The illustrated essays in this volume reveal how the Blisses' wide-ranging interests in art, music, gardens, architecture, and interior design resulted in the creation of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Their collections of Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art and rare garden books and drawings are examined by Robert Nelson, Julie Jones, and Therese O'Malley, respectively. James Carder provides the Blisses' biography and discusses their patronage of various architects, including Philip Johnson, and the interior designer Armand Albert Rateau. The Blisses' collaboration with Beatrix Farrand on the creation of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens is recounted by Robin Karson, and their commission of Igor Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto and its premiere by Nadia Boulanger is examined by Jeanice Brooks. The volume demonstrates that every aspect of the Blisses' collecting and patronage had a place in the creation of what they came to call their "home of the humanities."Call Number: N5220.B664 H66 2010ISBN: 9780884023654Publication Date: 2011
- Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes by Best known for her work at Princeton, Yale, and Dumbarton Oaks, Farrand (1872-1959), the niece of Edith Wharton, was a landscape designer. She synthesized European traditions to create an American style.Call Number: SB470 .F37 B35 1985ISBN: 0898310032Publication Date: 2003
- Beatrix: the gardening life of Beatrix Jones Farrand, 1872-1959 by Beatrix Farrand worked as a consultant and designer for more than 200 gardens, including the famous Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, and on the campuses of Yale and Princeton Universities. Among her many clients were the Rockefellers, the Morgans and the White House. But while she was respected in the social circles of her friend Henry James and her aunt Edith Wharton, her professional achievements remained largely unrecognized. tumultuous family background in the pursuit of her craft. Using Farrand's own drawings and plans, the book shows that where her contemporaries were still turning to well-known European fashions, Farrand was creating an original style that America could call its own. This social history and examination of Farrand's life seeks to place her in her rightful position as one of America's pre-eminent landscape designers.Call Number: SB470 .F37 B76 1994ISBN: 9780670832170Publication Date: 1995
- Beatrix Farrand: Landscape Architect byPublication Date: 1998
- Beatrix Jones Farrand, 1872-1959 : an appreciation of a great landscape gardener byCall Number: SB470.F3 P37Publication Date: 1960
- Beatrix Farrand: private gardens, public landscapes by Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (she was the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the traditional social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants. Many of her clients were members of the highest echelon of society with estates in Newport, the Berkshires, and Maine, but Farrand ultimately became a consultant for university campuses, including Yale and Princeton, and for public gardens, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at The New York Botanical Garden. Perhaps her best-known work is the extensive garden at Dumbarton Oaks, originally a private residence and now a research institute of Harvard University. Deeply influenced by the English landscape designer Gertrude Jekyll, Farrand was known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders planted in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers. Her gardens have been photographed at their peak especially for this book, and these lush illustrations are complemented by beautiful watercolor wash renderings of her designs, now preserved at the library of the University of California at Berkeley.Call Number: SB470.F37 T36 2009XISBN: 9781580932271Publication Date: 2009
- Unbounded Practice: women and landscape architecture in the early twentieth century by Women have practiced as landscape architects for over a century, since the founding of the practice as a profession in the United States in the 1890s. They came to landscape architecture as gardeners, garden designers, horticulturalists, and fine artists. They simultaneously shaped the profession while reflecting contemporary practice. It is all the more surprising, then, that the history of women in American landscape design has received relatively little attention. Thaïsa Way corrects this oversight in Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century. Describing design practice in landscape architecture during the first half of the twentieth century, the book serves as a narrative both of women--such as Beatrix Jones Farrand, Marian Cruger Coffin, Annette Hoyt Flanders, Ellen Biddle Shipman, Martha Brookes Hutcheson, and Marjorie Sewell Cautley--and of the practice as it became a profession. Winner of a 2008 David R. Coffin Publication Grant, awarded by the Foundation for Landscape StudiesCall Number: SB469.9 .W39 2009ISBN: 9780813928081Publication Date: 2009
- Dumbarton Oaks; the History of a Georgetown House and Garden, 1800-1966 byCall Number: F204 .D8 W47X 1967Publication Date: 1967
- Wrought Iron in Architecture: an illustrated survey by This classic work documents the many uses and ingenious adaptations of wrought iron in architecture, with numerous examples from the fourteenth century through the twentieth centuries. Gerald Geerlings' extensive introduction details the properties of wrought iron; its textures; tools and terms of the trade; architectural applications, design, motifs, and ornamentation; economic considerations; finishing; and more.The author illuminates the history of wrought iron with carefully researched surveys of the craft in several countries, including Italy, Spain, England, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, and America.Nearly 400 illustrations, including 73 clear drawings and 307 sharply focused photographs of gates, railings, screens, lighting fixtures, bannisters, balconies, door knockers, and other objects, chronicle the evolution of wrought iron as both a structural and decorative material. Special attention is devoted to early-twentieth-century developments and applications of this highly useful metal.Call Number: NA3950 .G4 1983ISBN: 0486245357Publication Date: 1983
- Architectural Photoreproductions by This manual is designed for professional conservators, librarians, private collectors, and researchers who want practical, contemporary insight into preserving architectural plans and drawings. The authors provide detailed methods for identifying architectural photoreproductions based on visual examination. The manual discusses twelve distinct processes and offers additional information on several other methods commonly used in North American architectural practice from 1860 to approximately 1960.Call Number: TR920 .K57 2009ISBN: 9781584562160Publication Date: 2009
- Dictionary of Landscape Architecture and Construction byCall Number: SB469.25 .C48 2005ISBN: 0071441425Publication Date: 2005