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Author

Mallet, Robert.

Uniform Title Optique des jardins. English

Title Envisioning the garden : line, scale, distance, form, color, and meaning / Robert Mallet ; drawings by Yves Poinsot ; translation by Bryan Woy.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Co., c2011.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction	712.01 Mal	---	Available

Description	143 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Note	Originally published in French as: L'Optique des jardins: elargir l'espace, liberer l'esprit.
	Includes index.
Summary	Mallet shows how the basic elements of design-- line, scale, distance, shape, color, and other sensory associations-- can open the viewer's outlook toward board perspectives or, conversely, can lock us up in a cage.
Contents	Lines and punctuation -- Relative scale -- Distance -- Forms, textures, and lighting -- Colors -- The other senses in action.
Source	NBK 8/11 PPL
Subject	Gardens -- Design.
	Landscape architecture.
Added Author	Poinsot, Yves.
ISBN	9780393733426 (pbk.)
	0393733424 (pbk.)