Mien Ruys

The Mother of Modernist Gardens

By Julia Crawford

£39.95

This is the first comprehensive study in English of the life and work of Mien Ruys (1904-1999)

Fully illustrated with contemporary photographs

From 1923 until 1980, Mien Ruys created over 3,000 gardens and landscapes. While most of these are in her native Netherlands, the influence of her designs and approaches spread far wider: many of us will have a little bit of Mien in our gardens, be it a railway sleeper, a diagonal line, a Phlomis russeliana or a water ball. Her work was extraordinary in combining two exceptional elements. Mien was one of the leading proponents of modernist design:

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