Reviews for Maine Impressions

The average rating for Maine Impressions based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-08-28 00:00:00 Kenneth T Kniss The book comprises short biographies of fifty international garden/landscape/water designers paired with well-photographed and illustrated introductions to their key projects, all of which are considered "conceptual gardens". These are interspersed with seven academic essays on the concepts, history, maxims etc. of conceptual garden design. I can't pretend to have read every word of this hefty book but it's beautifully illustrated and it does a good job of showing the variety of ideas and styles used in conceptual gardens which, like art installations, focus more on an overarching idea than on achieving standard garden prettiness, even to the point sometimes of not using plants at all.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-09-14 00:00:00 Cole Cercy Lots of profiles of conceptualist landscape designers with summaries of their approaches. I'm grateful for being introduced to Japan's Shunmyo Masuno and his creative adaptation of Japanese tradition and outlook to modern contexts.