The Designs of Russell Page

This beautifully illustrated volume details the full range of work by Russell Page (1906-85), considered to be the foremost British landscape architect working from the mid-1930s to the mid-1980s. The book provides an insightful biography of Page and also reveals his design process, featuring reproductions of his working drawings, from concept to presentation watercolour perspectives. After studying painting at the Slade School of Art, London and in Paris, Russell Page’s passion for plants led him to a career as a professional garden designer. The book follows his career from his brief partnership with his good friend Geoffrey Jellicoe through the 1940s and 1950s, when Page lived and worked in France, undertaking commissions in Europe, the Middle East and North and South America. He continued to work up until his death in 1985.Russell Page undertook all types of gardening projects, as shown in the range of case studies illustrated in the book, from small private gardens to parks and estates and public spaces. His seminal book The Education of a Gardener (1962) is now recognised as a classic in the field of garden and landscape design and planting.