Name: The Young Man and the Tree: Fernando Wong Landscape Design
Brand: Tim Johnson
SKU: 9780865654532
Price: 75.0 USD
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The Young Man and the Tree: Fernando Wong Landscape Design

The Young Man and the Tree: Fernando Wong Landscape Design

By Tim Johnson

Photography by Carmel Brantley

Foreword by Stephen Drucker

$75.00

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Explore the stunning private tropical gardens created by award-winning landscape designer Fernando Wong

The Young Man and the Tree is gorgeous proof of Elle Decor’s claim that Fernando Wong is “one of the most influential landscape designers in America.” As the luxuriant private gardens featured in this sumptuously illustrated book reveal, Wong has become renowned for designing not only landscapes of lushly layered foliage and flowers but also elaborate garden follies, pools, pool pavilions, fountains, sculpture gardens, and hardscapes. Trained in architecture and interior design in his native Panama, Fernando Wong turned to landscape design after moving to the United States in 2001, and along with his partner, Tim Johnson, founded Fernando Wong Outdoor Living Design in 2005. All the projects featured here are located in tropical climes, including Miami, Palm Beach, and Lyford Cay in the Bahamas. With a foreword by Martha Stewart and commentary by noted interior designers including David Netto, Miles Redd, and Amanda Lindroth, who decorated some of the homes for which Wong created the gardens, this book provides gardeners and garden lovers everywhere with fresh inspiration.

384 Pages
Hardcover with Jacket
9¼ x 12 in. (235 x 305 mm.), Portrait
300 Color Illustrations
ISBN:978-0-86565-453-2
Published October 2024
US $75 / CAN $94 / GBP £65

Fernando Wong was born in Panama, where he trained in architecture and interior design. After moving to the United States in 2001, he took up landscape design. In 2005, he and his partner, Tim Johnson, co-founded Fernando Wong Outdoor Living Design and grew the business from a two-man guest-bedroom office into a global landscape architecture firm with offices in Miami Beach and Palm Beach. Wong and Johnson live in Palm Beach.

Martha Stewart is the author of numerous lifestyle books, the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and a TV personality. She lives in Bedford, New York.

Carmel Brantley is a Florida-based photographer specializing in architecture, interiors, and gardens. Her work has appeared in Veranda, Southern Living, Better Homes & Gardens, Town & Country, and the Wall Street Journal. She lives in Ocean Ridge, Florida.

In her preface to The Young Man and the Tree, Martha Stewart, the US queen of domestic arts, recalls meeting Fernando Wong on the TV show Clipped, where they judged topiary artists. She notes they connected over their shared passion for gardening. Stewart’s endorsement of Wong’s “fanciful and classical” designs adds to his accolades for the Panama-born designer.

— Financial Times

One of the most influential landscape designers in America, Fernando Wong trained in architecture and interior design in his native Panama and applies the principles of balance, harmony and symmetry he learned to his garden projects. This beautifully illustrated study features private oases in tropical locations including Miami, Palm Beach and the Bahamas. With lush planting, pools and pavilions, each page is a feast of inspiration for garden lovers.

— ELLE Decoration

Award-winning landscape architect Fernando Wong recently published his first book, The Young Man and the Tree: Fernando Wong Landscape Design, which showcases tropical projects from Palm Beach to the Bahamas.

— Palm Beach Cottages & Gardens

The Young Man and the Tree: Fernando Wong Landscape Design

Award-winning landscape architect Fernando Wong recently published his first book, The Young Man and the Tree: Fernando Wong Landscape Design, which showcases tropical projects from Palm Beach to the Bahamas.

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