TCLF’s 21st Annual Silent Auction: Spotlight on Rare Books
Don’t miss out! Two of the most coveted items have already been sold. Bid or buy now, before October 15, for the best selection.
The 21st Annual Silent Auction of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) offers a splendid array of two-dozen rare books that reflect a wide range of genres in landscape design studies and history spanning the centuries. Consider the 300-year-old, leatherbound early edition of La Theorie et la Pratique du Jardinage by Antoine-Joseph Dézallier d’Argenville (1722), the authority on French formal gardens. Or, how about the tantalizing option of a group of works by Andrew Jackson (A. J.) Downing, including his first publication and first treatise on landscape gardening in America: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1840)? Enjoy the eight-volume Metropolitan Park Commission Reports about Boston (1897 and 1900–1906) and works by the British landscape architect Thomas Mawson from the 1920s. Still other books on offer include Arthur Edwin Bye, Jr.’s exceptional first edition of Art into Landscape, Landscape into Art (1983), where Bye's own landscape designs illustrate his philosophy of how art can be integrated into landscape, and how the landscapes themselves can be considered works of art.
Combining both superb artistry and landscape design with offerings appreciate the beautifully ornate The Gardens of Kijkuit by William Welles Bosworth, bound in the Japanese manner with gray cloth ties, which features the neoclassical gardens of Bosworth at John D. Rockefeller’s country estate near Tarrytown, NY, with evocative photographs by Arnold Genthe and a fold-out plan of Rockefeller's country estate.
Many volumes are signed and/or inscribed by their authors or the well-known landscapes architects who owned them: Larry Halprin, Dan Kiley, and other luminaries in the field. Take, as other examples, Rose Standish Nichols’s Italian Pleasure Gardens (1928), which is inscribed by Californian landscape architect Charles Gibbs Adams, or The Gardens of Florence Everts (2010), which is signed by the author.
The astonishing range of ideas in these publications—and more—are available by browsing through descriptions in the auction catalog. Under the Categories tab, select Books. For those who wish to skip bidding all together, a “Buy Now” option lets customers purchase works outright.
These rare volumes are just one subset of the nearly 100 items in the overall auction, which includes paintings, photographs, and other exceptional items created by renowned landscape architects, artists, and leading designers. This event, held annually in tandem with the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Conference on Landscape Architecture, runs through October 15.
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