Category Archives: patios

Mar192013
Tuesday’s Find: A set of 10 blue chairs

It’s spring and I’m scouting furniture and accessories for clients’ gardens and patios so I’m reviving Tuesday’s Find.  These blue steel Pascal Mourgue chairs from the mid-80s stopped my virtual browsing.  I love the color and the styling.  They can work … Read more

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  1. Leaf Magazine…Design Outside
  2. Garden Designers Roundtable: Art or Garden?
  3. Print and Pattern Choices: Mansion in May
LABELS: American Architecture, Furniture and Accessories, Gardens, patios Leave a comment

Jun112012
Monochrome Inspiration

I’m inspired by monochrome gardens? Yes, I am.  These gardens with their washed out almost colorless spaces are really appealing to me.  Maybe it’s my current mood, or the abundance of summer color outside, or a knee jerk reaction to … Read more

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  1. Garden Design Details: Painted Wood
  2. Black and Tan–a dramatic winter palette
  3. Foliage Partners
LABELS: color, Gardens, patios, stone work 2 Comments

Jan262012
Luxury Pizza Oven: Wood Stone Ovens

Last night I was invited to a dinner cooked entirely in a Wood Stone Oven.  A relatively new addition to the myriad of luxury products available for outdoor kitchens,  Wood Stone has adapted its commercial product–California Pizza Kitchen uses their ovens–for outdoor … Read more

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  1. Monochrome Inspiration
  2. Whimsical Garden Chairs
  3. Out of season fun…wild pools
LABELS: Gardens, patios 5 Comments

Jan232012
Marimekko, outdoor fabric please?

If there were ever fabric prints suited for outdoor use they would be Marimekko. When their new store opened on Fifth Avenue in NYC in October I was thrilled. I finally visited in early December and my first taste of … Read more

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  1. Landscape Design Project in Progress
  2. Miss R on the road…visiting gardens
  3. Hubert de Givenchy and Gardens
LABELS: Gardens, New York, Outdoor Fabric, patios 2 Comments

Jan52012
Landscape Design Project in Progress

I like working as part of a large team when I am brought in at the beginning, rather than the end of a project as so often happens.  Collaboration with architects, other designers and clients can be fun and rewarding … Read more

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  1. The not so lowly cinderblock
  2. Garden Color Inspiration: Black
  3. Monday 45 | A Year of Mondays
LABELS: Gardens, Landscape Design, patios 4 Comments

Aug122009
Lounging Around

A ritual of summers past was to go into the back of my parent’s garage and drag out an ancient aluminum chaise lounge.  This contraption with its flat straps, springs and yellow, green and orange vinyl floral cushions made me … Read more

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  1. Online Garden Shop: Shop Boxhill
  2. Portland | Distilled
  3. Black and Tan–a dramatic winter palette
LABELS: Furniture and Accessories, Garden Design, Landscape Design, patios 2 Comments

Aug62009
Retrofit | Ready to Party!

I am rarely offered a blank slate on which to create an outdoor living space.  Nine out of ten landscape or garden projects I design for my clients involve keeping at least some of the existing elements.   These types of … Read more

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  1. Two NYC Designer Show Houses, Part 2
  2. The Drawing Board
  3. Design Challenge: Garden Designers Rountable
LABELS: Garden Design, Landscape Design, patios, project 8 Comments

Apr182009
Showhouse Season V, Issue 6, In Real Life

Yesterday morning was dedicated to show house business. Frank Scheppe, my contractor extraordinaire, and I were at a local wholesale nursery soon after it opened to choose two Styrax japonica for the garden. After they were loaded we delivered them … Read more

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LABELS: Garden Design, patios, paving pattern, Planting Design, Rumson NJ, Sheep's Run, VNA of Central NJ 1 Comment

Dec102008
Under foot. A stone carpet.

A grey project for a grey day. This is part of the project I’ve been updating here, it started with design work last spring and is now the last build of the season. The photo below shows a partially completed … Read more

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LABELS: granite, patio stone, patios, stone work 4 Comments