{"product_id":"copy-architectural-digest-the-most-beautiful-rooms-in-the-world-book","title":"The Gardens of Bunny Mellon Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA gorgeous celebration of the gardens and landscapes of Bunny Mellon, written by a leading specialist and sumptuously illustrated with both new and archival photography.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“A tome to treasure.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eArchitectural Digest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout her long and storied life, Rachel “Bunny” Mellon’s greatest passion was garden design. She and her husband, Paul Mellon, one of the wealthiest men in America, maintained homes in New York, Cape Cod, Nantucket, Antigua, and Upperville, Virginia, and she designed the gardens at all of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe also designed gardens for some of her dearest friends, including the Rose Garden and the East Garden at the White House, at the request of President Kennedy, and the gardens at both the Paris home and the château of couturier Hubert de Givenchy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll of these gardens are featured in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Gardens of Bunny Mellon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, illustrated with Mellon’s own garden plans, sketches, and watercolors. Much like one of Mellon’s landscapes, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Gardens of Bunny Mellon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e slowly matured over several years, allowing the gifted landscape photographer Roger Foley to record Oak Spring, her cherished Virginia home, in all four seasons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book also features vintage photographs by Horst, Aarons, and others of Mellon’s gardens for her homes in Cape Cod, Antigua, and New York. Author Linda Jane Holden’s text is based on extensive interviews with Mellon before Mellon’s death at age 103 in 2014.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Gardens of Bunny Mellon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is part guide—with gorgeous photographs by Roger Foley that could make even the least inclined to go hunting for a trowel—part biography, and part social history. Mellon’s passion is apparent throughout.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVogue.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tropical Punch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43837560062091,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/1703\/3611\/files\/IMG-1478.jpg?v=1755715995","url":"https:\/\/thetropicalpunch.com\/products\/copy-architectural-digest-the-most-beautiful-rooms-in-the-world-book","provider":"Tropical Punch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}