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Things
GARDEN
TOOLS
By Suzanne
Slesin, Guillaume Pellerin,
Photographs by Bernard Touillon
The second volume in
Abbevilles critically acclaimed
series
EVERYDAY THINGS unearths the fascinating
story
behind the basic yet inventively crafted implements
that
have enabled the human race to cultivate natures
bounty
and beauty. Garden tools are inseparable from
gardens, and yet, while the history of gardens has
been
exhaustively explored, the story of garden tools has
been
virtually
ignoreduntil now. As authors Susanne Slesin
and
Guillaume Pellerin reveal in this lushly designed
and
nostalgia-filled volume, embedded in these familiar,
every-
day
tools is a rich history that documents the tastes and
passions of gardeners through the ages.
Iiiustrated with hundreds of full-color photographs of gar-
den
tools, as well as with vintage lithographs,engravings,
posters, ads, and even decorative plates depicting
garden
implements, the bok follows the
gardening cycle, from
Preparing the Earth to
Harvesting, and each chapter
features the traditional tools used in that phase of
garden-
ing. The Sowing chapter offers a host of knives,
grafters,
pincers, saws, scythes, hatchets, billhooks, and a
mind-
boggling variety of prunners.
Today, vintage garden tools
are being rediscovered and
appreciated anew as much for their ingeniousness as
for
their
sculptural and timeless form. GARDEN TOOLS
casts
these humble objects in a whole new light, and any-
one
who loves to dig a spade into the earth or prune a
rosebush will find the book irresistibly compelling.