Beatrix Jones Farrand,
1872-
1959 US landscape architect. Clients such as Harkness and Rockefeller commissioned her to design the gardens at their estates and country homes. One of the founding eleven members of the American Society of Landscape Architects, she had an important influence on the profession in the U.S. Her use of garden "rooms" or defined areas, which transition sharply from one to the next has become a hallmark of modern
landscape architecture. Extant Farrand gardens are the Bliss family's Dumbarton Oaks in
Washington, D.C., the Harkness summer home Eolia in
Waterford,
Connecticut and the Rockefeller's estate The Eyrie in
Seal Harbor[?],
Maine. Her papers are archived at the
University of California at Berkeley and
Harvard. Born into a prominent New York family, she married the famous Yale historian
Max Farrand[?] in
1913. She was the niece of
Edith Wharton. Farrand's main teacher was Charles Sprague Sargent of the Harvard Arboretum.
Italian Garden at Eolia, Waterford, Conn.
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