The new book’s glorious gardens by Dalla Caponiglo, editor of Frederick Magazine, feature a certain type of garden. Each of the 21 gardens in the book belongs to a well-known interior designer, which shows. The gardens consist of the same precision and care as the fully tailored rooms these designers create in their professional life. They are all incredibly beautiful, clearly trained and professional aesthetic works (often collaborating with landscape designer peers).
Caponiglo says the garden book was a natural choice for Frederick’s next book (which published two books on interior design). Gardens often appear in magazines, but she also says that anyone interested in interior design is ultimately going to look at it.
The glorious gardens show how elegantly the interior aesthetic can translate into garden styles. “There is a great deal of consistency between the look of the garden and the interiors these people create,” explains Caponiglo. “Interior designers treat the garden like an extension of the house.”
There are six lessons collected from the glorious gardens.
1. Place the garden like a home.
The theme that emerges from books is the importance of the garden “room.” Many designers use hedges and walls to create a sense of room inside the outdoors. “Defining rooms makes large assets more manageable,” explains Caponiglo. For example, Katie Lidder has a walled flower garden just outside her home, and then you go out into the pond and then walk past the cutting garden. “All of these areas are almost like rooms in our home,” Caponiglo says.
2. The garden should match the location.
