Paul mellon and dorcas hardin

“I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise” 
Mac Griswold                                                         
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40

Rachel Lambert Mellon, known to everyone as Bunny, was a self-taught master of landscape design, a discerning art and rare-book collector, and an icon of style and grace.

She grew up in wealth, then inherited wealth, and went on to marry one of the richest men in the world, Paul Mellon.

Driven and possessed of an endless curiosity, by the time Bunny Mellon died in 2014 at the age of 103, the Listerine heiress had been lauded for landscape and garden designs that included the White House Rose Garden and East Garden, John F.

Kennedy's gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery, and the JFK Library and Museum grounds overlooking Boston's Dorchester Bay. She designed Hubert de Givenchy's gardens in Paris and at his nearby chateau, Le Manoir du Jonchet, later assisting in the restoration of the Potager du Roi at Ve The Life and Times of Bunny Mellon - Avenue Magazine CADO