Tra giardino e paesaggio

Bringing together ten amongst her most important gardens,Tra giardino e paesaggio: scorci mediterranei dal Nord al Sud Italia is both a compendium of Anna Scaravella’s 30-year-long career as a landscape designer and a captivating journey through the changing Italian landscape. The book—which spans the entire peninsula from Brianza to Apulia, passing through Umbria and Tuscany—includes […]

Dal paesaggio al giardino

Dal paesaggio al giardino Idea, Design, Realization Spanning 13 amongst her most famous gardens—Dal paesaggio al giardino, far from an anthology or a simple “best of”, is a deep dive in Anna Scaravella’s design practice. The gardens collected here span regions as diverse as Lombardy, Emilia, Tuscany, and Lazio. However, the chapters follow all the […]

Creare un giardino

Dal paesaggio al giardino Complete with detailed plans of her garden designs as well as over 200 photographs—Creare un giardino is the best manual available to anyone who would like to know more about what kind of choices and challenges designing a garden from scratch entails.  The book dwells on all the most important aspects […]

Geometria e Botanica

Geometria e Botanica The Contemporary Garden of Anna Scaravella Detailing 21 amongst the designs she realised in the first two decades of her practice—Geometria e botanica is Anna Scaravella’s first book as well as a journey into the poetics and her approach to landscape design. Touching on aspects such as her use of water ponds […]

Giardini storici piacentini

Giardini storici piacentini I giardini storici piacentini di I.Casali di Monticelli, I.Castelli, A.Scaravella Published by Cassa di Risparmio di Piacenza&Vigevano,Piacenza 198625,75 euro

Ostuni

Ostuni (Brindisi), Apulia. 2021-2022 Nestled in the plain that leads from the town to the sea, the garden of Ostuni draws inspiration from the Apulian landscape, taking the limits of a context marked by lack of water and salinity and turning them into strengths of a design that feels uber-contemporary in its juxtaposition of austerity […]

Passignano sul Trasimeno

Passignano sul Trasimeno (Perugia), Umbria. 2001-2004 Originally conceived to accompany an hotel de charme overlooking Lake Trasimeno, the garden of Passignano draws from elements typical Italian formal garden but reworks them in a way more appropriate to English landscape gardens so as to open the view to the panorama. To the east, a water blade […]

Capalbio

Capalbio (Grosseto), Tuscany. 2018 A terrace opening up to the wild landscape of Maremma, the garden of Capalbio was conceived with the idea that everything that fell within the boundaries of its enclosure would serve to exalt what lies outside its perimeter. Mixed borders of subshrubs, perennial herbs, and grasses mark its edges whilst blending […]

Marciana Marina

Marciana Marina (Livorno), Tuscany. 2017 Designed to complement a summer villa, the garden of Isola d’Elba serves as a rustic and wild counterpoint to the architecture it accompanies, whose stacked cubes and blinding white colour evoke the typical Mediterranean village dropping sheer into the sea.  Closer to the house, the garden appropriates the rationalist language […]

Bagno Vignoni

Bagno Vignoni (Siena), Tuscany. 1989-1990 Overlooking the famous Etrusco-Roman thermal bath, the garden of Bagno Vignoni is an homage to the landscape of Val d’Orcia, which, beyond its romantic, almost luxuriant appearance, hides its essence of “garden in motion”. In the early 1990s, the garden was but a barren plot of land, the result of […]