by Carlisle | Dec 16, 2012 | Carlisle Flowers
Students, your take-home exam, the final for this semester is as follows: write a five page paper on the best landscape architect there ever was in the United States. In my unbiased view, the answer is Frederick Law Olmsted. Your assignment is to explain how his...
by Carlisle | May 27, 2011 | Carlisle Flowers
Frederick and Louise Vanderbilt bought a 600 acre estate in Hyde Park overlooking the Hudson River Valley in 1895. McKim, Meade and White, well-known architects from New York were hired to build a new home. Frederick Vanderbilt with a keen interest in horticulture...
by Carlisle | Apr 8, 2010 | Carlisle Flowers
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) is widely celebrated for her iconic paintings of flowers, animal bones, and stark New Mexican cliffs. While she has long been regarded as a central figure in 20th-century art, the radical abstract work she made throughout her career has...
by Carlisle | Oct 9, 2009 | Carlisle Flowers
The Garden Court, The Frick Collection, New York, Photo: Michael Bodycomb The Frick Museum: In 1913, construction began on Henry Frick’s New York mansion at Seventieth Street and Fifth Avenue. The house he erected cost $5,000,000. The firm of Carrère and Hastings...
