The Botanical Collection

The Botanical Collection

This is a collection put together inspired by botanical gardens and the large plants found around the globe. Another for of inspiration came from Burle Marx. Burle Marx, born in 1909, was a Brazilian landscape architect whose designs of parks and gardens made him world-famous. 
 
Burle Marx.
While studying painting in Germany he developed an appreciation for the native Brazilian vegetation, which was prized by the Botanic Gardens in Berlin, but dismissed at home in Brazil as scrub or bush. Burle Marx began taking expeditions into the Brazilian rain forest with botanists, landscape architects, architects and other researchers to gather plant specimens. 
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Burle Marx designed more than 1,500 gardens and parks and perhaps the most recognisable of all his landscapes is the promenade at Copacabana, Rio de Janiero’s famous beach. The promenade stretches for some five kilometres, as a winding ribbon of abstract stone mosaics. From the upper buildings that line Avenida Atlantica, Burle Marx appears to have painted a giant single canvas.
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A canvas made up of millions of mosaic tiles.
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Patricia at Kew Gardens, London.
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Looking at these plants, they reminded me of the age of dinosaurs, where they kept growing and growing. I was surprised when I saw how large the trees and plants were. I could not imagine how beautiful they look in their natural homes.
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