Garden designer Lynden B. Miller explores the life and career of Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959), America's first female landscape architect.
David, che crea giardini per mestiere, affitta un appartamento nel centro di San Francisco. Una sera, dopo l’ennesima birra, si materializza nel suo salotto una giovane donna, Elizabeth, che reclama la proprietà della casa e di ogni singolo oggetto che l’adorna. Improvvisamente, così come è apparsa la ragazza svanisce, per tornare subito dopo a tormentare David e la sua discutibile condotta casalinga. Superato lo sconcerto iniziale e convintosi della sua sanità mentale, David dà ‘vita’ a una curiosa convivenza tra il fisico e il metafisico con Elizabeth, finendo irrimediabilmente per innamorarsene. Ma perché il loro amore si ‘concretizzi’, letteralmente, David dovrà scoprire la ragione dello stato di sospensione di Elizabeth tra questa e un’altra vita e convincerla a materializzarsi trattenendola per sempre.
Inedita commedia romantica sotto l'albero con Amy Smart. Ancora innamorata del suo ex ragazzo, Kate rovina il primo appuntamento con Miles il giorno della vigilia di Natale. Ma per uno scherzo del destino rivivra' quel giorno per 12 volte, finche' non scegliera' l'uomo giusto.
Isamu Noguchi was a sculptor, designer, architect, and craftsman. Throughout his life he struggled to see, alter, and recreate his natural surroundings. His gardens and fountains were transformations meant to bring out the beauty their locations had always possessed.
Frederick Law Olmsted designed New York City's Central Park with Calvert Vaux over 150 years ago, and it remains an undisputed haven of tranquility amidst one of the largest, tallest, and most unnatural places on earth. This film examines the creation of America's great city parks in the late 1800s through the enigmatic eyes of Frederick Law Olmsted, visionary urban planner and landscape architect. In his own words, Olmsted and America's Urban Parks weaves together Olmsted's engaging and poignant personal story with those of the lasting masterpieces he left for us today, featuring Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Kline as the voice of Frederick Law Olmsted.
To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted’s efforts to preserve nature created an “environmental ethic” decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics. With gorgeous cinematography, and compelling commentary this film presents the biography of a man whose parks and preservation are an essential part of American life.
André Le Notre is certainly the most famous French gardener. He was also a designer, architect, engineer, landscaper and urban planner. He worked for Louis XIV from 1645 to 1700 and designed the gardens of Versailles, Vaux le Vicomte, Chantilly and Fontainebleau, as well as the Tuileries in Paris.