Private Landscapes: Modernist Gardens in Southern California, Pamela Burton, 2002, HC, NF

Burton, Pamela and Marie Botnick. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002

English, Near Fine hardcover, folio, 12 1/16” x 9 9/16”, 192 pp.

ISBN:1568984022

Near Fine folio, black cloth over boards, blind-stamped lettering to front and spine, black endpapers, minimal soiling, sharp tips, tight binding. Very Good dust jacket with image of Henry Singleton house, photo by Tim Street-Porter, white lettering to front, black spine with white lettering, edgewear, minimal shelfwear, bumping and rubbing to bottom tips, 1” closed tear to front bottom left corner, dent to back bottom right corner, protected by Mylar sleeve. Text in English, Introduction by Kathryn Smith, replete with full-color and black-and-white photographs and floor plans of gardens and houses by celebrated architects, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, Gregory Ain, Raphael Soriano, Harwell Hamilton Harris, and John Lautner. A splendid volume on 19 gardens and their accompanying houses designed by architects of mid-century modernism who saw the garden as an outdoor extension of the houses they designed.