Pop Erratics

(Just randomly posting a random spinning fake rock. Should you need to cover unsightly pumps, utility boxes, septic lids or those prize-winning rose bushes from the winter cold, it's available from “the internet's largest selection of real fake rocks.” Also ideal for xeriscaping peak water landscapes.)

Future Millinery

(PAM Spring/Summer 2010 Garden of Earthly Delights Lookbook. The piece on the left is constructed out of jacquard “architect” fabric. Note the tote.)

Australian-based clothier PAM (a.k.a. Perks and Mini) has released their Spring/Summer 2010 collection, called Garden of Earthly Delights. Perhaps mirroring the alien weirdness of Hieronymus Bosch's masterpiece, it's a fantastical amalgam of Justin Bieber's Urban Outfitter, inner city sensibilities exploited in earlier seasons by Tommy Hilfiger, and coastal chaviliciousness. Obviously the key accessory here are the vegetal chapeaux, photosynthesizing organic and local nourishment as well as phytoremediating contamination accumulated from childhood vaccination regimes and years of eating frozen chicken nuggets, all the while just being awesome to the extent that Lady Gaga could never approximate.









In the Archives:
Bouffant Topiary

(Spotted at Beton & Garten.)

Sunnydale

Nothing will bring your dinner guests to discuss ironically about urban blight, spectacularly failed city planning policies and grotesque economic inequalities faster than David Monsen's graphically neat wallpaper, Sunnydale Trailer Park.

Neo-Baroque for the socially conscious.



Or could this be a new form of environmental determinism? Plaster this all over the nursery, and you've got yourself the next Daniel Burnham. Use it to cover the walls of a kindergarten classroom, and you'll soon have a litter of future Baron Haussmanns. But whether that's a good thing or not will depend largely on the prevailing mood, fickle or otherwise, of landscape urbanists 20 years hence.



Next on the production line: Addis Ababa Slums, Harare Squatter City, Rio de Janeiro Favela, Casbah Algiers, Sadr City.

Garden Follies and Chinoiserie Pavilions by Andrew Zega & Bernd H. Adams

Pruned turns 1 year old today! And I've decided to treat it — i.e., me — I shall be treating myself to a few architectural notecards from Andrew Zega & Bernd H. Adams. To decorate my desk, trade, barter with, or use it as a passkey to a Kubrickian sex orgy.



























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Architectural Watercolors & Architectural Renderings Zega & Dams

Landscape Architecture: The Musical

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Silent Auction

(Drawings by M. Paul Friedberg. Minimum bid $200.)

Normally we're averse to this sort of things. When something is offered for a price, there is little desire here to blog about it. Of course we're not oblivious to the realities of the profession and fully recognize the financial requirements in providing resources for free. So we'd like to turn your attention to the Silent Auction at the ASLA Annual Meeting on 7-9 October 2005. The proceeds will support the development of The Cultural Landscape Foundation's free (truly a most glorious word!) film archive, Landscape Legends: Documenting Landscape Architecture in America, which will feature videotaped oral history interviews with practitioners who have played a key role in shaping the profession and the American landscape.

Some of the items are your garden variety project detritus. In a comical lapse of imagination, Michael van Valkenburgh, Peter Walker, and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander submitted items found on their office floor. (MUST KEEP SAYING: It's all for a good cause.) Fortunately, the rest are not merely beautiful, they reflect the artist's design philosophy. Laurie Olin's watercolors are phenomenal, and Peter Osler's photographs of landscape in the process of submission are truly marvelous. Richard Haag's illicit photograph of the 52nd reconstruction of the main Shinto shrine is not an Ansel Adams, but the admission of a supposed questionable provenance makes it quite personal and rather precious in a way that offering a simple project drawing does not but rather laughable. (It's all for a good cause.)

My favorites are James van Sweden's portrait of Roberto Burle Marx and Todd Eberle's portrait of Dan Kiley, rare insights into how artists see other artists. (Is there a portrait of Ian McHarg by Martha Schwartz or vice versa for bid?) They are rather engaging; we seem to be eavesdropping on their private conversation. Anyone who bids exhorbitantly on these should not feel shortchanged.

Gardens-in-a-Bag

Portable Landscape. Mobile Landscape. Instant Landscape. The list of possible studios goes on.

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Gardens-in-a-Bag