In a Tuscan Paradise, Marina Schinz records, through the art of photography, changing seasons, Renaissan ce landscapes, distinctive furnishings and sublime plantings in the gardens of her Italian friends. '
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"I have found a country retreat of such delight that I would be happy to live there forever," writes Marina Schinz of Valle Pinciole, the modestly sized but immodestly beguiling Tuscan estate of her friends Matteo and Federico. Schinz, a renowned garden photographer, has a well-developed eye for beauty on a human scale, and her exquisite photographs make as much of the dense intimacy of the villa's Jekyll garden as of the glorious hills and olive groves that lie just past its borders. Schinz was first attracted to the undeniably abundant hillside gardens of Valle Pinciole (some of them designed by the landscape designer Russell Page), then fell in love with the whole package, which is as fruitful a marriage of nature and art as its attentive owners can create. Schinz muses on the area's Etruscan history, neatly tying the ancient Etruscan love of luxury to the estate's very deliberate loveliness of design. Each corner of Valle Pinciole has small surprises in store: the classical Italian lemon garden surrounded by a sea of lavender, the maze hedge behind the orangerie, the stand of bamboo in the woodland garden. Schinz deems Valle Pinciole "a rare find" for its palpable sense of culture, its harmony and grace, and the way it reflects the temperaments and passions of its owners.
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...a remarkably intimate portrait of a place that captures not only its considerable beauty, but also the rhythms of its seasons, as well as the everyday life and backstage labor that ordinarily don't make it into published gardens.... Schinz's accomplishment has been to make her subject seem romantic and completely real at the same time.... -- The New York Times Book Review, Michael Pollan
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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A private entry to Paradise,
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This review is from: Tuscan Paradise (Hardcover)
Wonderful photographs and a delightful text enable you to visit, in your own home, the very special retreat of two Italian perfectionists. Flowers, plants, pergolas match the very Italian Tuscan architecture, furniture and furnishings. A pure delight.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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A visual masterpiece,
By Robert Moyer (LA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tuscan Paradise (Hardcover)
Lent to me by a friend to get ideas on using large planters I found A Tuscan Paradise to be an absolute delight to both the eyes and soul. Not only is there beauty in the landscape photographs but of those indoors as well, how the home and its furnishings harmonize with the spendor of nature well attended.Schinz's individual photographs are often masterpieces of composition, visual ships-in-a-bottle of perfection. They hold one's eyes like fine Impressionism. If you have a friend who loves gardening, buy them this book! It makes me want to pack for Tuscany every time I think of it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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A visual masterpiece,
By Robert Moyer (LA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tuscan Paradise (Hardcover)
Lent to me by a friend to get ideas on using large planters Ifound A Tuscan Paradise to be an absolute delight to both the eyes andsoul. Not only is there beauty in the landscape photographs but of those indoors as well, how the home and its furnishings harmonize with the spendor of nature well attended.Schinz's individual photographs are often masterpieces of composition, visual ships-in-a-bottle of perfection. They hold one's eyes like fine Impressionism. If you have a friend who loves gardening, buy them this book! It makes me want to pack for Tuscany every time I think of it.
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