[Rarebooks] fs: Banzai!! er, Bonsai... that's different. Well, gardens anyway...

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Engel, David H. JAPANESE GARDENS FOR TODAY.

Rutland; Charles Tuttle: 1959.

The first full, practical survey of contemporary Japanese gardens and
classic gardening principles in English. Engel shows how the Classic
Japanese garden design principles are currently being used in Japanese
garden design, and instructs Western gardeners how they too may use them.

He illustrates classic gardens of the past side by side with contemporary
designs, emphasizing how ancient practices can be adapted to the unique
problems of modern homes, and giving rule-of-thumb basics.

Engel cautions, however, that to be used effectively you must do more than
borrow a bit here and a bit there to create some sort of McDonald-sy
neo-Japanese pastiche.

So don't do that.

If you do he'll come and take your rake away... As will Richard Neutra,
who wrote the foreword.

Hardcover. 9"x11", 270 pages, 70 line figures, 17 color and 279 b/w
illustrations, dj. Jacket with a little wear, soil and rubbing. [03759]
$65.00

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