Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them

Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them

Editorial Reviews Book Description An account of eminent women landscape architects who flourished in the golden age of country estates.

This beautiful book covers in depth the work of six designers-Beatrix Farrand, Martha Hutcheson, Marian Coffin, Ellen Shipman, Ruth Dean, and Annette Hoyt Flanders-and looks at a dozen other less-well-known women. It focuses on the Long Island projects that constituted a large part of their work and brings these pioneering women to life as people and as professionals. 187 duotones, 20 color illustrations. About the Author Cynthia Zaitzevsky teaches at Harvard University and lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them,Cynthia Zaitzevsky,W. W. Norton & Company,0393731243,Architecture,Landscape,Landscape Architecture And Design,U.S. Architecture - General,Women In The U.S.,Landscape art & architecture,New York

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