Madison Cox - Garden Designer

About this episode

Madison Cox, a world-renowned garden designer, discusses his career and experiences in garden design.

Our latest guest on The One Way Ticket Show is world-renowned Garden Designer, Madison Cox. The interview was conducted in September 2024 in the Willis Pavilion, beside the house today known as Villa Oasis which was built by French Orientalist painter, Jacques Majorelle in the 1920s, and later owned by Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Bergé. Adjacent to the home is the famed Majorelle Garden. Madison was born September 23, 1958, in Bellingham, Washington, and raised in San Francisco and Marin County, California. As a garden designer and author of books about gardens, he has traveled extensively across the United States and Europe as well as to Japan, China, Russia, India, North Africa, and Australia. Madison's passion for garden design has also extended to lecturing, leading garden tours in France and Italy, and book publications. He has lectured across the United States and Canada: at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as at the Portland Garden Club and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Madison Cox is the author of Private Gardens of Paris (Harmony Books, 1989), co-author of Gardens of the World (Macmillan, 1991), and with…

People in this episode

Host: Steven Shalowitz

Guest: Madison Cox

Topics covered

• garden design
• interview
• travel
• landscaping
• horticulture

Keywords

• garden design
• Madison Cox
• landscaping
• horticulture
• travel

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Private Gardens of Paris, Gardens of the World, Artists' Gardens: from Claude Monet to Jennifer Bartlett, Majorelle: A Moroccan Oasis, The Gardener's Garden

Places: Bellingham, Washington, San Francisco, Marin County, California, Willis Pavilion, Villa Oasis, Majorelle Garden

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