RARE GIFT for GARDENERS! 1926 House Beautiful Gardening Manual by Fletcher Steele L.A. | Atlantic Monthly Company | Antique Gardening

A rare and wonderful gift for the gardener in your life, The House Beautiful Gardening Manual is a beautiful, antique gardening book published by Atlantic Monthly Company in 1926. Compiled by the magazine's editorial staff, the introduction was written by Fletcher Steele, famed garden designer.

ABOUT HOUSE BEAUTIFUL (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
House Beautiful is an interior decorating magazine that focuses on decorating and the domestic arts. First published in 1896, it is currently published by the Hearst Corporation, who began publishing it in 1934. It is the oldest still-published magazine in what is known as the "shelter magazine" genre.

ABOUT FLETCHER STEELE (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
John Fletcher Steele (1885-1971) was an American landscape architect credited with designing and creating over 700 gardens from 1915 to the time of his death. He enrolled in the young landscape architecture program at Harvard University where Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. was one of his professors. In 1908 Steele left Harvard to accept an apprenticeship with Warren H. Manning. His early garden plans are generally in the English Arts and crafts style of Gertrude Jekyll, Reginald Blomfield, and T. H. Mawson, but ornamented with Italianate detailing such as balustrades, hedges, urns, statuary, stone pineapples, and flights of water steps. His conversion to an Art Deco style began in 1925 when he visited the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (the 'Art Deco Exposition') and saw its examples of cubist gardens with mirrors, concrete and coloured gravel. Steele's designs and writings of this period were influential during the stylistic transition from Art Deco to Modernism.

BIXLEY NOTES
• The House Beautiful Gardening Manual
• Written by House Beautiful editorial Staff
• Introduction by Fletcher Steele
• Black & white photographs illustrations throughout
• 151 page hardcover, gilded cover
• Published by the Atlantic Monthly Company, 1926
• Measures 8" x 5 3/4"

VINTAGE NOTES
• In great condition
• Minor wear on the corners of the covers
• Dust jacket is missing
• Pages are in excellent condition
• See our photographs for more close-up details

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