We are delighted to host the official launch of garden writer Clare Coulson’s new book, ‘Wonderlands: British Garden Designers at Home’, showcasing the stunning private gardens of eighteen leading landscape architects and garden designers.
With breathtaking photography by Éva Németh, the book offers a rare glimpse into the inventive and idiosyncratic ways these designers craft their own gardens, some of which have been photographed for the first time.
Miranda Brooks, one of eighteen designers featured in the book, will join Clare in conversation to discuss her career in landscape, which has taken her from apprenticing with Arabella Lennox-Boyd to founding her eponymous landscape studio in New York, where one of her first commissions was to create a garden for Anna Wintour.
Miranda’s gardens are distinctive yet completely timeless, with a deep sense of the pastoral and a connectivity to nature. Alongside discussion of her design practice, the talk will also cover her latest project developing the gardens and landscape at her home in Gloucestershire, which includes an expansive kitchen garden, herbacous borders and meadows, all of which is managed biodynamically.
Speakers
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Miranda Brooks
Miranda Brooks
Miranda Brooks is an English-born landscape architect and contribuing editor at American Vogue. She trained in the U.K. before relocating to New York where she founded her eponymous landscape practice. She has created gardens for Anna Wintour, Lauren Santo Domingo, Gwyneth Paltrow and Hermès.
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Clare Coulson
Clare Coulson
Clare Coulson is a journalist and gardening writer regularly contributing to the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveller and Gardenista. She is co-editor and contributing author of ‘Blooms’ (Phaidon) and contributing writer of ‘The Garden Chef’ (Phaidon), among others.
