SIDE NOTES
ON GARDENS & LANDSCAPE
andscape historian Judith Tankard is. Her latest is the definitive volume on Beatrix Farrand (1872–1959), a pioneering landscape architect whose work spans from the golden age of gardening into modernism. Her designs are beautiful, but she was lauded, too, for her engineering and ecological principles. Farrand was from a prominent New York family—and Edith Wharton’s niece. Society clients included the Rockefellers; larger commissions were done for major universities and botanical gardens. Perhaps her best-known work is the landscape at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. The oversize book is lavishly illustrated with archival images, beautiful watercolor renderings of Farrand designs, and images that show the gardens today. A list of gardens open to the public is included.
