Tropical Garden Design
- ISBN13: 9780794602420
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Made Wijaya, landscape designer to such high-profile gardens as those of rock icon David Bowie and the United States Ambassador in Jakarta, shares his brilliant garden designs and offers advice for both novice gardeners and professionals on creating similar results in their own backyards. Exploring Wijaya’s many gardens, including water gardes, Balinese gardens, paths and paving, floating pavilions, courtyards, roof gardens, ad more, the designer reveals his expert… More >>
I absolutely LOVE this book. I actually misplaced it and couldn’t live without it, went straight to the bookstore to buy another. The title is Tropical Garden Design not HOW to design a tropical garden (for all you reviewers thinking this book would teach you how to design a tropical garden.) I thought the pictures were more than enough to inspire you anyway. THANK YOU SO MUCH MADE WIJAYA, THIS BOOK IS AWESOME!!!!!! I NOW HAVE BALI FEVER!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
Made Wijaya, southeast Asia’s most successful landscape artist (he has designed four hundred tropical gardens worldwide including the U.S. ambassador’s house in Jakarta), has put out a captivating volume of tropical garden color photos highlighting his adopted home island of Bali. Tropical Garden Design shows off Bali at its luxurious palm and bamboo best: feast your eyes on floating pavilions, water gardens, walled compounds, planted terraces, patios, and his own personal havens in Sanur and Villa Bebek. It successfully wows the reader with its green, sunlit images of Bali’s cornucopia of artistically enhanced earthly delights.
Rating: 5 / 5
An informative and beautiful reference work, discussing the inspiration, themes, and practical considerations behind more than 400 of the lovliest tropical gardens in the world. Landscape architect and designer Made Wijaya provides a sound resource for professionals interested in water gardens, pavilions, paths and paving, courtyards, and other features characteristic of tropical garden design.Particular attention is given to ways to complement the architecture, and the methods of developing a story, or point of view that unites the elements of design. Emphasis is also given to the importance of observing and emulating nature, and reverent credit is given to the inspiration of Balinese culture, as well as to the design ideas found in ancient gardens of the Indo-Chinese civilizations. Includes appendices, bibliography, plant list, chronological list of the author’s design projects, list of gardens mentioned in the book, and index. Additional information on some specimen plants can be found in Ornamental Plants & Flowers of Tropical Mexico.
Rating: 4 / 5
Visually inspiring book, great inspiration if you live in the Tropics as I do. Nice to dream about if you dont.
Rating: 4 / 5
The title of this book is “Tropical Garden Design”, not “How To Design A Tropical Garden In Ten Easy Steps”.
That reviewers on this page and across the board here on Amazon project their own desires into books that do not even pretend to be what the reviewers WISH they were is indeed odd, and quite unfair.
Neither the title nor desciption claims that this is a guide to installing your own tropical garden, yet reviewers here rate this great book on a low scale because it doesn’t do exactly that.
Rating: 5 / 5