Titian Mug with Gift Box For the Gardener Designing a Garden presents Michael

Designing a Garden presents Michael Van Valkenburgh’s concept and execution of the Monk’s Garden

The plant has a rough

and unlike most of the earlier ones

long adored for its dainty white buds and lovely fragrance

Titian named them “poesie” and considered the works as visual equivalents of poetry

Titian Mug with Gift Box For the Gardener Designing a Garden presents MichaelThis elegant mug features Titian's interpretation of Europa, one of Jupiter's great loves, shortly after she initially meets the god disguised as a beautiful white bull. Written in gold on the mug's inside is an excerpt from a letter written by Isabella Stewart Gardner to her art advisor, Bernard Berenson, after he had secured the masterpiece for her; it reads "When comes Europa? I am feverish about it." The cup's elegant gold handle pays tribute to