Album Vilmorin. The vegetable garden - Reviews
| "Only the publishing house of TASCHEN could package the 19th-century Vegetable Garden illustrations of seed firm Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie in such a gorgeous boxed set of 46 frameable color prints."— C Magazine, Los Angeles, United States | |
| "'La vie est Art', Mais oui! Les légumes, les fruits sont aussi beau à regarder que les fleurs, et les oeuvres d'Art... Un jardin n'est-il pas une oeuvre d'Art? La Création tout entière n'est-elle pas Art? bien sur que oui! un légume est beau. Je suis particulièrement 'fan' de potirons et d'aubergines, pour leur look et leur goût. Autrefois, les paquets de graines potagères du XVIIIe et XIXe siècles étaient de véritables reproductions de petits chefs-d'oeuvres. Ces illustrations étaient si populaires que la société Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie a décidé de d'éditer un album de ces merveilles afin de présenter ces belles légumineuses. Amateurs d'Art, admirons les radis!"— arts-lubies.blogspot.com, France | |
| "Un capricho de 46 láminas para enmarcar."— Mía, Barcelona, Spain | |
| "Una raccolta di 46 splendide tavole illustrate che hanno per soggetto frutti e ortaggi, riproduzioni di famose litografie eseguite nell'Ottocento. Di grandi dimensioni (cm 34,5x49) sono accompagnate da note botaniche e da un testo che narra la storia dell'azienda agricola francese Vilmorin, che le aveva commissionate."— Brava Casa, Milano, Italy | |
| "The Vilmorin family, esteemed botanists to the 18th century French royals, released their first catalog of kitchen vegetables in 1766. The family legacy continued into the late 1800s, when they published 46 color plates illustrating France's edible horticulture. Luxe publishing house TASCHEN has reproduced these models in a gorgeous boxed set for all the 21st century locavores to eat up."— 944 Magazine, Los Angeles, United States | |
| "Potager d'antan. Voici une magnifique réédition du catalogue des plantes potagères du célèbre grainetier Vilmorin. La première édition date du XIXe siècle! Dans ce livre de près de 50 cm de haut sont reproduites les planches peintes à la main de l'époque. Un très beau cadeau."— Fruits et légumes, Agen, France | |
| "La maison parisienne Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie a considérablement enrichi le savoir botanique depuis le XVIIIème siècle. Ses nombreuses publications ont marqué une époque, et malgré la disparition d'une grande partie de leurs ouvrages, aujourd'hui, un splendide album de 46 planches est édité en format XL. Les illustrations, œuvres de peintres naturalistes et d'iconographes spécialistes d'agro-botanique, sauront entraîner le lecteur vers l'histoire des légumes, parfois anciens ou disparus (chou marin, topinambours, raifort, raiponce...). Vous l'aurez compris, cet album sur les plantes potagères est précieux, car à travers la présentation de légumes dits 'utiles', il propose un point de vue scientifique, historique et artistique qui permet de ne pas perdre de vue l'évolution considérable de nos potagers et la richesse de notre patrimoine..."— Cuisine.tv, France, France | |
| "Curato da Werner Dressendorfer (storico della medicina dell'Università tedesca di Erlangen - Norimberga) l'Album Vilmorin viene ora ristampato da TASCHEN. ... Dalle melanzane alle fragole, i disegni raccontano un mondo, quello dell'alimentazione, che tra incroci e manipolazioni genetiche potrebbe presto cambiare volto. E le tavole di Elisa Champin saranno lì a ricordare la forma originaria della carota."— Il Venerdì de La Repubblica - Roma, Italy | |
| "Someone once said 'all life is art' or at least I think they did, well someone must have said it once musn't they? Anyway, what I think they meant was that everyday, practical things can be just as beautiful to look at as paintings, a perfect example of this can be found on 18th and 19th century Parisian seed packets. In fact so popular were these designs that the company responsible for them (Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie) decided to create and album of their finest artwork to showcase their beautiful legumes, namely 'The Vegetable Garden, 1850-1895'. Luckily for art and veg lovers alike TASCHEN and pharmaceutical historian Werner Dressendörfer have reissued this tasty looking tome and it's now available to buy with 46 prints included to put up in your kitchen, greenhouse or fruit and veg shop. We think they're incredibly cool and beautiful or should that be fruitful? No it shouldn't because they're veg as well aren't they? Whatever, would you just look at the radishes on that!"— Propermag.co.uk, London, United Kingdom | |
| "A few seed companies still use packaging that is almost too beautiful to open. ... Few, however, are quite as tempting as those produced before the war by the Parisian firm of Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie, whose magnificent 19th-century botanical plates have been collected together by German publisher TASCHEN in a box filled with fine art prints. What appeals about these seed packets is not only their faded, potting-shed colours, but he fact that I am buying into the ancient act of planting a seed that will become food and, in turn, part of me. What can be more life-affirming than leafing through rows of tenderly illustrated packets of seeds that are shortly to find their way into the warm, fecund ground?"— The Observer Food Magazine, London, United Kingdom | |
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Album Vilmorin. The vegetable garden
Werner Dressendörfer
Collection with 46 Fine Art Prints, Booklet, Box, 13.6 x 19.3 in., 124 pages, $ 99.99 |
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