25 May 2012

Design star

Legendary LA-based landscape architect Jay Griffith is one of my heroes.  He is a true artist and philanthropist, as the founder of the annual Venice Garden Tour.

This iron door elevates the architecture and landscape of this space, and the limited palette of plants and materials is so effective.  It looks like a Richard Serra piece just landed from space into the middle of this property!

I love his use of vessels (an obsession of mine) and color-blocking, both in architectural and botanical elements.  The restrained simplicity of his choices makes the play of natural light and shadow almost a design feature.



Images at here, here and here

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