Bruxelles: Archives d'Architecture Modern, 2002. Large quarto. 286 pp; color photographs throughout, plans. Text in French. Silver-lettered gray cloth with dustjacket. NF/NF, attractive 4" x 6" bookplate affixed to front free endpaper, else a crisp, unmarked copy, top of spine gently bumped. Rene Pechere (1908-2002), Belgian landscape architect, became known by the garden of four seasons and the Congolese garden he conceived for the Exhibition of Brussels in 1958. He created gardens for castles or simple houses in Belgium, France, Germany and Holland. The labyrinth and the garden of the heart he drew for Mr and Mrs Van Buuren in Uccle insured him an international fame. Sylvie Desauw photographed the gardens during the different seasons.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Bookseller: Carnegie Hill Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 010662
Title: LES JARDINS DE RENE PECHERE
Author: Grisel, Laurent
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 2871431140
ISBN 13: 9782871431145
Publisher: Archives d'Architecture Modern
Place of Publication: Bruxelles
Date Published: 2002
Keywords: belgian Landscape Gardens France German Holland Dutch
Bookseller catalogs: Landscape;

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