Fletcher Steele - Knowledge

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The House beautiful gardening manual; a comprehensive guide, æsthetic and practical, for all garden lovers, both those who are still planning their gardens on paper and those who have had gardening experience, including plant lists compiled with the help of horticulturalists in all sections of the

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According to Robin Karson's 1991 book about Steele's life and his landscape architecture, the only two of his gardens that remain in existence (as originally created) are at Naumkeag and at the

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These projects were not all viewed with high regard at the time, and only relatively recently have historians begun to appreciate Steele's impact on garden design and landscape architecture.

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In 1913 Steele embarked on a four-month tour of Europe to study European designs. Upon his return to America, he opened his own practice. His early garden plans are generally in the English

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Steele was based in Boston for more than 50 years. In pursuit of his career he traveled by train extensively in the United States. Toward the end of his life, he lived in

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Steele's designs and writings of this period were influential during the stylistic transition from Art Deco to Modernism. He helped shape

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and did excellent work in restoring the garden that Steele designed and developed for the Turners.

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gardens with mirrors, concrete and coloured gravel. By 1930 Steele was writing with enthusiasm of

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credited with designing and creating over 700 gardens from 1915 to the time of his death.

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was one of his professors. In 1908 Steele left Harvard to accept an apprenticeship with

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The Fletcher Steele Archives at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

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Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect: An Account of the Garden-maker's Life, 1885–1971

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An online film on Fletcher Steele's designs at Naumkeag in Stockbridge, Massachusetts

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