Acclaimed writer/photgrapher team Anneli Bojstad and Eduardo Mencos look at 40 of Spain's most beautiful gardens. Large and small, historical and contemporary, classical and modern, the gardens are all very different, reflecting the diversity of Spain's climate and landscape, from the moist, green north to the dry, hot Mediterranean south. All are among the most beautiful gardens to be found in Spain today, as over 200 stunning colour photographs reveal. And all are open to the public.
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Inspiring visions of peaceful siestas among the vibrant plantings.
(English Garden )A guide for the traveller and it will certainly tempt potential garden visitors.
(BBC Gardens Illustrated )These are paradise gardens to be savoured.
(Irish Garden )For fireside escapism and inspiration for your own patch.
(Evening Standard )Among this year's picture book gems is the stunning Great Gardens of Spain
(Scotsman )Inspiring and captivating, this book will make an impressive addition to your coffee table or bookcase that will leave you itching to visit every single garden in its pages.
(Living Spain )About the Author
Anneli Bojstad is a journalist and designer. Born and brought up in Sweden, she has lived for many years in Spain. Like her husband, Eduardo Mencos, she contributes regularly to Vogue, Country Life, Condé Nast Traveller, Elle Deco and Casa & Campo.
Eduardo Mencos is one of Spain's leading photographers.
Eduardo Mencos is one of Spain's leading photographers.
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By K. Platt
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Format:Hardcover
I am a lover of beautiful gardens. I also lived in Spain for some time and know quite a few of its gardens well. For anyone who loves Spain, its gardens or wants to get to know them better, this is a great book to own, read and then visit the gardens. It is a coffee table book with coffee table photos but the sumptuous photography and descriptions go beyond coffee table. Big tomes are rather difficult to carry around and equally difficult to take to bed. This one has therefore stayed on my work desk, where I cast furtive glances of longing. I can feel the heat burning the pages, days in Sevilla at 46°C. I know I belong in quiet courtyards with trickling water and peace. I can touch the history, the lush growth, the aristocratic nature that belongs to many of these gardens. Spanish gardens are far too overlooked. So I was so pleased to wallow in 40 Spanish gardens and to be able to keep a small piece of each of them, lovingly on my work desk. The photographer is Eduardo Mencos, whose book Hidden Gardens of Spain should be familiar to anyone looking at Spanish gardens. This book made me long to visit each garden, even the ones I knew well, to re-discover them. If that is not possible, I'm grateful to the author and photographer for bringing Spanish gardens into my home. The publisher has done an excellent job with this. This review first appeared on Karen Platt's book review website.
Format:Hardcover
I was disappointed about the quality of the photos. Hardly any photo is really sharp and many photos are overexposed. (I cannot judge whether the printing process has made things even worse, which often happens.) In terms of composition, the pictures are more often than not mediocre - compare garden photos by Andrew Lawson, Jürgen Becker and the other titans of garden photography with the pictures in this book, and you know what I mean. To be fair, many photos seem to have been cropped - and thus spoilt - by the book designer. The captions are mostly trivial and contain little botanic information. The text is more relevant. To summarize, one cannot help thinking that quality control has utterly failed here.
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