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Author Blanc, Patrick, 1953- author, photographer

Title The vertical garden : from nature to the city / Patrick Blanc ; preface by Jean Nouvel ; photographs by the author and Veronique Lalot ; translation by Gregory Bruhn
Edition Revised and updated edition
Published New York : W. W. Norton & Co., [2012]
New York : W.W. Norton, [2012]
© 2012
©2012

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 WATERFT ART&ARCH  635.974 Bla/Vgf 2012  AVAILABLE
Description 205 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, plans ; 34 cm
Contents Natural habitats -- The impact of plants on architecture -- The vertical garden
Summary Patrick Blanc, an artist with a green thumb, has created dozens of his admired botanical tapestries in public and private spaces around the world. In this luscious, all-colour book he explains how to create plant walls using over 1000 plants, drawing on his observations of natural milieus, and his technique of growing on vertical surfaces
Notes "Originally published in French under the title Le Mur vegetal : de la nature a la ville"--Colophon
Previous edition: 2008
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [208])
Notes Translated from the French
Subject Climbing plants.
Plants in architecture.
Plants, Climbing
Vertical gardening.
Author Bruhn, Gregory, translator
Lalot, Véronique, photographer
Nouvel, Jean, 1945- author of introduction, etc
LC no. 2011039042
ISBN 9780393733792 (hardback)
Other Titles Mur végétal. English