“…the book that first made garden design accessible to everyone. In "Room Outside" John Brookes invented the highly practical concept of the garden, however large or small, as a usable extension of the home.”
John Andrew Brookes, MBE (11 October 1933 – 16 March 2018) was a garden and landscape designer. Beginning as a Modernist and working with Dame Sylvia Crowe, Brenda Colvin, Geoffrey Jellicoe and other notable architects and landscape architects, Brookes came of age in the dawn of garden and landscape design for the middle classes in Britain and in the heyday of 1960s London. Brookes influenced contemporary garden design worldwide more than anybody in his field. He designed over a thousand gardens in Europe, Australia, Asia and North and South America, one of the best known being the English Walled Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden. He has been Chairman of the Society of Garden Designers as well as running his own school of garden design at his celebrated home in Sussex, where he practises what he teaches and uses the paved terrace outside his kitchen year round. At Denmans he also pioneered natural gardening with trees, shrubs, perennials and self-sown annuals in gravel to achieve a relaxed but very carefully planned effect that requires little maintenance.
Title: Room Outside - a new approach to garden design
Author: John Brookes,
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London
Publication Date: 1969
Format: hardcover with dust jacket
Images: illustrated in colour and b/w
Pages: 191 pp.
Language: English
Condition: Good only. Dust jacket with several losses and tears
Provenance: The library of British landscape designer, Alan Hart
Stock Number: RB05241 AH
“…the book that first made garden design accessible to everyone. In "Room Outside" John Brookes invented the highly practical concept of the garden, however large or small, as a usable extension of the home.”
John Andrew Brookes, MBE (11 October 1933 – 16 March 2018) was a garden and landscape designer. Beginning as a Modernist and working with Dame Sylvia Crowe, Brenda Colvin, Geoffrey Jellicoe and other notable architects and landscape architects, Brookes came of age in the dawn of garden and landscape design for the middle classes in Britain and in the heyday of 1960s London. Brookes influenced contemporary garden design worldwide more than anybody in his field. He designed over a thousand gardens in Europe, Australia, Asia and North and South America, one of the best known being the English Walled Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden. He has been Chairman of the Society of Garden Designers as well as running his own school of garden design at his celebrated home in Sussex, where he practises what he teaches and uses the paved terrace outside his kitchen year round. At Denmans he also pioneered natural gardening with trees, shrubs, perennials and self-sown annuals in gravel to achieve a relaxed but very carefully planned effect that requires little maintenance.
Title: Room Outside - a new approach to garden design
Author: John Brookes,
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London
Publication Date: 1969
Format: hardcover with dust jacket
Images: illustrated in colour and b/w
Pages: 191 pp.
Language: English
Condition: Good only. Dust jacket with several losses and tears
Provenance: The library of British landscape designer, Alan Hart
Stock Number: RB05241 AH
