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     LASSUS, BERNARD. IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Gold Medal Award Winner, 2009. LES JARDINS SUSPENDUS DE COLAS Paris: Bernard Lassus and Colas, S.A. 2010. $35.00
    With texts by Stephan Bann, Michel Conan, John Dixon Hunt, Axel Sowa, Massimo Venturi Ferriolo,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Franco Zagari.

"...gardens haave almost always foretold in advance the relationships between man and nature, and between society and nature." (Bernard Lassus)

    Colorful documentation of the highly imaginative garden designed by Lassus for the French motoroute company Colas's siege social in Boulogne Billancourt, bordering Paris. In his uniquely sensative interaction with the architecture of Pierre Riboulet, Lassus has created a world of four stages: "Le Jardin du Jeu des Saisons;" Les Jardins de Pins;" Le Jardin de Verdure;" and Le Jardin de l'Attente," all of which are illustrated her by Lassus's photographs, drawings, plans and elevations. Additional photographs are by Michel Biteau, Marie-Clare Bordaz, Fabien Calcavechia, Michel Conal, Andrea Koenecke, Frank Schalaster and Ferriolo Massimo Venturi. Oblong spiral bound volume, 23.2 x 27 cm.; 128 pp. profusely illusted and printed in color and in black and white. Bound in color printed plastic covers. NEW.

$120.00

Copies from a limited edition of 40 are also available housed in a blue-green silk bound box with color illustration by Lassus inset on upper board. With 14 additional separate reproductions of drawings by Lassus in a pochette signed and numbered by him. Both book and box were designed by the landscape artist.

$900.00

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