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Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand (née Jones; June 19, 1872 – February 28, 1959) was an American landscape gardener and landscape architect. Her career included commissions to design about 110 gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, public parks, botanic gardens, college campuses, and the White House.
Beatrix Farrand, the designer of the Sunken Garden at Hill-Stead, is considered by some to be the finest female landscape designer of her generation and a pioneer in the field. Born in 1872 to a wealthy and privileged New York family – Edith Wharton was her aunt – Farrand’s love of gardening began alongside her mother at her family’s ...
Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959), one of the most important landscape architects of the early 20th century, was Yale’s Consulting Landscape Gardener from the 1920s to the 1940s. The only woman among the 11 founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Farrand designed more than 200 landscapes over her 50-year career, including the ...
The Beatrix Farrand Society is a federally recognized nonprofit Maine corporation dedicated to fostering the art and science of horticulture and landscape design, with emphasis on the life and work of Beatrix Farrand.
1872 - 1959. Beatrix Farrand. Pioneer Information. The only founding woman member of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1899, Farrand was born in New York City and studied horticulture and garden design under the tutelage of Charles Sprague Sargent, director of the Arnold Arboretum.
Farrand, Beatrix Jones (1872–1959) One of the finest landscape architects of her time, internationally known for her knowledge of plants and her keen sense of design, who was the only woman founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Name variations: Beatrix Jones.
15 de mar. de 2021 · Beatrix Farrand (whose maiden name was Jones) was born in 1872 in New York City to a wealthy family and spent her formative years among the upper crust of New York society. Her family was so fashionable, that it is said that the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses” was first used to describe them.
