The Gardens of Bunny Mellon
Throughout 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. She 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 the château of couturier Hubert de Givenchy.
"Bunny Mellon was happiest wielding a pair of garden clippers. Even as a child, Mellon was drawn to landscape design. . . . Mellon's ingenious, often under-appreciated body of work should be noticed, and this book is a valuable contribution to that end."
- Flower
"For admirers of the inimitable style of "Bunny" Mellon, and the innate design flair that took her—without formal training—to the White House and Versailles, the upcoming book, The Gardens of Bunny Mellon, is a tome to treasure."
- ArchitecturalDigest.com
“Linda Jane Holden did a wonderful job writing and gathering timeless images for this beautiful book, and she spent an enormous amount of time interviewing the gardener. The book is filled with gardens created by the talented Bunny Mellon.”
- Splendid Sass
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Bunny Mellon Style
This fascinating story of an American style icon Bunny Mellon, an art collector and philanthropist with her husband Paul Mellon, reveals how her style developed and how she became a self-confident, hands-on designer of homes and gardens in a privileged world.
Bunny Mellon Style is the intimate story of one of the most unintentionally influential women of twentieth-century design. Learn how her style developed, take a look inside the family homes she designed, get the flavor of her collaborations with French designers of fashion and jewelry, and begin to understand her vast and lasting influence on the world of design.
““Everyone copies her, everyone references her, including me.” ―Tory Burch
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““To be blasé about Bunny Mellon should make you resign from whatever business you are in.” ―Billy Baldwin”
Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon
A treasure trove of Bunny Mellon’s garden design philosophy and advice from her personal archive.
Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon is for anyone who has enjoyed time spent in a garden, from aspiring garden makers to those who manage large estates. This collection is comprised of extracts from Bunny’s own writings and garden notes, as well as photographs and drawings from her archive.
Bunny Mellon Garden Journal
Illuminated with Bunny Mellon’s own sketches and quotes about gardening and life.
With alternating blank and lined pages, this journal satisfies every gardener’s need to draw and write. It is for the garden designer, not just the grower. The dainty sketches throughout are taken from notes and letters that Bunny wrote to her friends and family.
An elastic band closure, inside pocket, and a ribbon bookmark makes this a lovely keepsake, wherever your journaling may take you.
Presidents’ Gardens
The White House is the most famous house in the world – yet its 18 acres of perfectly manicured grounds and magnificent gardens, much beloved by the Presidents and their families, are rarely seen by the public. This book is a horticultural celebration of these gardens, beginning with the influence of George Washington's beloved Mount Vernon on the design of the nation's capital and looking at the development of White House gardens over two centuries.
Rare photographs perfectly illustrate highlights from the best of the presidential gardens, including Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden, the Roosevelt wartime White House greenhouses and Michelle Obama's sustainability-inspired vegetable garden, which now produces food that is served to the First Family. The text is peppered with lively comments and useful tips from gardeners who contributed to White House beautification projects, serving many different Administrations.