The Vertical Garden: From Nature to the City

By Patrick Blanc

Patrick Blanc, an artist with a green thumb, has created dozens of his admired botanical tapestries in public and private spaces around the world, including the Marith & Fran ois Girbaud boutique in Manhattan; the Jean Nouvel-designed Quai Branly Museum in Paris; the aquarium in Genoa; the Siam Paragon mall in Bangkok; and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. In this luscious, oversize, all-color book, he explains how to create plant walls using more than one thousand plants, drawing on his observation of natural milieus, his technique of growing on vertical surfaces, his savoir faire, and his passion for plants.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393732592
• ISBN13: 9780393732597
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 4.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 13.4" x 1.0" x 10.6"