hidden lives / secret gardens is a synthetic history about gardens
and human sexuality. Written in an accessible style for the garden
enthusiast, the serious landscape designer, and those interested in
the lives of international celebrities, the book explores the very
roots of Modernism as begun in Florence, Italy in the very first
year of the twentieth century.
For the past twenty-years, R. Terry Schnadelbach, FAAR,
Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida, has
researched the Modernist era in landscape architecture. He authored
a book, "Ferruccio Vitale, Landscape Architect of the Country Place
Era," on the Florentine landscape architect, who brought to America
both the formal garden as well as its first Modernist landscapes.
In hidden lives / secret gardens, Schnadelbach exposes the engaging
and intertwined lives of a group of expatriates, their secluded
hillside villas and secret new gardens that ushered a new direction
in garden design. Three successive new gardens at Villas Gamberaia,
La Pietra and I Tatti were among the earliest Modernist landscapes
and were an inspiration many landscape professionals in Britain and
America.
While hidden lives / secret gardens manuscript focuses on the
revival of the Renaissance aesthetic in Florence and paints a
picture of each garden's history, it explores the new and emerging
field of sexual psychology through the hidden lives of the Villa's
owners and designers, revealing their artistic life styles, their
commercial and sexual mores.
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