Rakes Progress #17
210 x 275 mm, 298 pages
Bromley, UK
Editors: Victoria Gaiger, Tom Loxley
Creative director: Victoria Gaiger
'The art of gardens, plants and flowers'
The progressive guide to all things botany. As well as garden-adjacent things viewed through a creative lens, you'll be met with interesting digressions that take you into the realms of art, fashion, food, architecture, animals, but always bring you closer to nature.
This time, the editors take us to the olive groves of Puglia, literature-inspired wedding feasts, sculpture inspired by the natural world, Mattuthavani flower market in Madurai, and more. As usual, each copy is accompanied by (the now paid-for) supplement-turned-sister publication Rakes Sense: The Art of Fragrance, now five editions in. Perfect for the gardener, florist, or perfumer in your life.
On the Journal:
‘In issue nine the editors lift their gaze above the garden fence for the first time, to survey the landscape. The bleak, the isolated, the verdant, the distant, the exposed, the hidden; seemingly nothing escapes the attention of this extension of the theme. A windswept Danish bird watching sanctuary becomes a destination to admire architecture’s relationship to nature (above), as much as the birds.’ READ MORE.