Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon Griswold Mac
The story of Bunny Mellon, the great landscape and interior designer, becomes a revelatory exploration of extreme wealth in the American century.Bunny Mellon, whose life was marked by astonishing good…
Specifikacia Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon Griswold Mac
The story of Bunny Mellon, the great landscape and interior designer, becomes a revelatory exploration of extreme wealth in the American century.Bunny Mellon, whose life was marked by astonishing good fortune as well as tragedy and scandal, remains a singular figure in the annals of American design. She had her finger on the pulse of American culture and possessed a rare, once-in-a-generation sense of style and grace. Her most celebrated work--the White House Rose Garden, designed during the presidency of John F. Kennedy--demonstrated how formal restraint and the sparing use of color could be deployed to maximal effect. Later, her understated landscape design for the Kennedy gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery changed the face of American public memorials.A famously private person, many of Mellon's greatest achievements remained concealed from public view. Her