Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is delighted to welcome Nancy Power to the store to discuss and sign her new book, Power of Gardens, on Sunday, January 24th, at 3pm. "Nancy Goslee Power is to landscape what Frank Gehry is to architecture,” famed California historian Kevin Starr once remarked. In his book Coast of Dreams, California on the Edge, 1990-2003, he describes her style as ‘eclectic boldness’. Her blend of cultural and landscape palettes, her painter’s eye, her use of water, stone, appropriate planting, color, and light to create designs for use and comfort place her as one of the great landscape designers working in the nation today. Nancy Power was awarded the 1999 Henry Francis du Pont Medal in landscape architecture, she was an Artist in Residence at American Academy in Rome in 2004, and was the recipient of the 2005 House Beautiful Giants of Design Award. Nancy Goslee Power & Associates has designed and built gardens of all sizes, from small home gardens to large estates, and including the Norton Simon Museum Sculpture Garden in Pasadena, the Music Center and Grand Avenue street planting in downtown Los Angeles, Simon Meadow Native Park, and Kidspace Children’s Museum. The firm has just completed two gardens in Beverly Hills: a new public garden, Beverly Canon Gardens, adjacent to the Montage Beverly Hills Hotel and All Saint’s Episcopal Church’s new campus. Nancy Power is Chairman of the Board of the Garden School Foundation, which is dedicated to creating schoolyard gardens to provide students opportunities to benefit from hands-on exposure to nature. This interest has created a new focus for her public work; she has just completed a garden for Inner-City Arts, a non-profit school for high poverty inner-city children, and has two more projects in the works, The Herb Albert Education Village, which will have a kitchen garden on its roof, and the Children’s Institute, another inner-city educational garden. Ms. Power is a trustee of the Santa Monica Museum of Art and is a board member of the new Los Angeles Park Conservancy Foundation. Ms. Power is the author of the classic, The Gardens of California: Four Centuries of Design from Mission to Modern published by Hennessey and Ingalls and is currently working on her monograph, The Power of Gardens, to be published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang in 2009.