"Barrows Patent Pruner"
Metal
1910
9.5" x 3"

About the Piece

The Burman & Sons Patented Barrows pruner, c. 1910, is rare and unusual. The beautifully complex, futuristic mechanism pulls the cutting blade toward the handle when squeezed. It would have been used for roses or other woody plants requiring a clean, efficient cut. This item is functioning and is quite usable as a garden implement or for display.

About the Donor

David A. Rubin is the founding principal of DAVID RUBIN Land Collective, a landscape architecture, urban design, and planning studio committed to practicing with an emphasis on socially purposeful design strategies. Educated at Connecticut College and Harvard University, he has taught and lectured at a number of institutions, including Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Rubin is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. His designs include Cummins DBU Headquarters, Eskenazi Health Hospital's "The Commonground," and the Indianapolis Museum of Art Master Plan, all in Indianapolis; Pennovation Works in Philadelphia; and Franklin Park and Canal Park, both in Washington, D.C.

Rubin's collection of antique garden implements is on permanent rotating display at GALLERY Land Collective, a conduit for the representation of thoughtful explorations focused on landscape. The gallery presents contributions from landscape architects and designers, ecologists, sociologists, anthropologists, artists, and others whose work informs the breadth of the discipline. It is a collective consciousness that raises landscape to the highest ideals.

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