RIOUSSE, André.   PETITS JARDINS D'AUJOURD'HUI.   Première Série.       (Paris:) Éditions d'Art Charles Moreau, n.d. (ca.   1947).          (and) PECHERE, René. PETITS JARDINS D'AUJOURD'HUI. Deuxième Série. (Paris:) Éditions d'Art Moreau, n.d. (ca.1955). Both volumes in this series of portfolios on contemporary, mostly European garden, design. This extensive photographic survey consists of fine full page gravure plates from photographs by Chevojon Frères in the Riousse; in the Pechère the photographer is not identified, but the quality is as high. In the Riousse volume, with the exception of four views of Brazilian gardens designed by Burle Marx, the gardens are all French. Designers include the editor/author, Maurice Villette, Charles Weiss, Georges Moser and Georges Truffaut, among others. The Pechère volume illustrates elegant residential gardens at Grasse, Cannes, Paris, Ile-de-France, Cap-Ferrat, and other European locations. Prominent contemporary landscape architects such as Otto Valentien (13 plates), Charles Lardet (5), Hermann Mattern (3), Pietro Porcinai (2) and Pechère himself (3) are featured.   Two volumes, 4to (32.5 x 24.8 cm); (vii) pp. + 48 heliogravure plates; (vii) pp. + 48 heliogravure plates.            Both volumes loose, as issued, in original cloth-backed printed boards, new cloth spine on the Pechere volume; minor fraying to heel of spine on the Riousse volume. $375.00

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