Javier Mariátegui. Gardens Looking for Beauty

For the past forty years, Mari tegui has created numerous gardens across Spain and in several other European countries. He has also published many articles on landscape-gardening topics in specialized magazines
and a book on one of his gardens. Among the present garden architects of Spain Mari tegui plays an outstanding role. Even the Spanish TV has dedicated a monographic program to him and his gardens.

In 2016, Edition Axel Menges published Gardens for the Senses:

The Spanish Gardens of Javier Mar ategui. The new book, Javier

Mar ategui: Gardens Looking for Beauty, now provides an even

more comprehensive overview of the work he has created until today.

It was not by chance nor by a trick of fate that Javier Mari tegui

dedicated himself to gardening. He grew up among gardens.

Both his grandmothers were gardening enthusiasts, one of

them, the Marchioness of Casa Vald s, wrote the book Spanish

Gardens, which describes the history of Spanish gardening from

Roman times to the present day.

This enthusiasm was passed on to him by his parents. From

his earliest years he was making his own gardens, by reusing

those plants discarded by his father.

Mari tegui studied landscape gardening and design at the

Escuela de Paisajismo y Jardiner a Castillo de Batres in Madrid.

Subsequently he worked in England as a gardener. Back in Spain,

he established the Jardines de Espa a nursery, which looks after

and employs handicapped children, with whom he first started

making gardens. For the past forty years, he has created numerous

gardens across Spain and in several other European countries.

He has also published many articles on landscape-gardening

topics in specialized magazines and a book on one of his gardens:

El Jard n de los Tapices /The Tapestry Garden. Among the

present garden architects of Spain Mari tegui plays an outstanding

role. Even the Spanish TV has dedicated a monographic program

to him and his gardens.

It would be difficult to summarize in a few words the essence

of Mari tegui's gardens, given the wide variety of styles, their versatility

and numerous differences that perhaps becomes his signature .

His style is not dogmatic, he loves order and disorder,

straight lines and curved, the wild chaos of nature as well as strict

geometrical patterns, varied and single species of plants, colour

and absence of colour.

Perhaps as a result of an intimate knowledge of the magic of

water in Andalusian Moorish gardens, Mari tegui uses water as

an essential element in many of his gardens. He makes it work

in all its forms; in pumps, in cascades, in constant gentle movement,

or rocking in waves, in disperse drops or in silence like a

mirror that adds the magic of its reflection.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3869050551
• ISBN13: 9783869050553
• Release Date: January 2027
• Publisher: Axel Menges
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 3.84 lbs.
• Grade Range: Grade 12 to Postsecondary