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• Title:The private gardens of SMI Landscape Architecture / edited by Jorge Sánchez.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Sánchez, Jorge (Landscape architect), editor.
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : Merrell Publishers Limited, 2018.
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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: SB470.S568 P75 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Sánchez, Jorge (Landscape architect)
  SMI Landscape Architecture, Inc.
  Landscape architectural firms--Florida--Palm Beach.
  Landscape design--United States.
  Landscape architecture--United States.
  
• Description:207 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
  
• Summary:"The garden design firm of SMI Landscape Architecture is known for its estate masterplanning, its public gardens and streetscapes, and its thoughtful private gardens for clients across the United States, particularly in Florida, and in the Bahamas. The firm's philosophy incorporates a 'botanic garden' approach with exotic planting and elements of classical European design to create beautiful, usable spaces, and it is also known for its preservation and restoration of old landscapes. This book presents 15 new gardens, never before published in any book, that show the range of the firm's work. Each client has different requirements, and so each garden turns out differently - but each shows the firm's hallmarks of lush planting, luxurious garden 'rooms' and immaculate hardscaping. As Jorge Sanchez puts it in the Preface, 'This book shows how not one individual but many make a firm successful.' For each garden, practical information about the design approach and details of the planting are combined with an account of the process, the firm's relationship with the client and the reasons for the design decisions. Through the narrative - often personal, always descriptive, always detailed - a picture builds up of the approach to each set of circumstances. Many of the projects are in Palm Beach, where a boom in the building of new houses and their attached estates in the early twentieth century has left a legacy of stunning - if sometimes neglected - homes and landscapes ripe for restoration. Local architects such as Addison Mizner and Maurice Fatio designed houses that are now being rejuvenated and sympathetically modernized to fit the requirements of twenty-first-century families, and firms such as SMI are at the forefront of the re-creation of their gardens ... The firm of SMI also works in temperate planting zones, and projects in more northerly states provide an opportunity to work with an entirely different palette of plants ... Throughout the book there is a strong sense of participation - with the climate, with the local flora, with the clients and with other designers, whether architects, artisans or interior designers. To be part of such collaborative efforts is hugely satisfying for Sanchez and the members of his team, as well as producing the best possible result for each set of clients."-- Amazon.com
  
• Notes:Includes index.
  
• ISBN:1858946727 hardcover
  9781858946726 hardcover