Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Innisfree garden

Saw this in the current issue of Architectural Digest.
If I had a house with property, I would incorporate this rustic, plankboard walkway throughout the overgrowth as well. I'd actually have more "wild" area, though you can't tell the extent of the landscaping from this photo.

I've always been of the mind that the property that a house sets on (or at least the house that I would own) - is as important if not more important than the house itself. As a native Wisconsinite, the Nature is not something to be enjoyed only while hunting or fishing a weekend here and a week there, but it is an extension of everyday life. I agree with architect Frank Lloyd Wright's philosophy (also a Wisconsin native) that, "a building is not just a place to be. It is a way to be." The core of this ideology was always the belief that architecture has an inherent relationship with both its site and its time.

No comments:

Post a Comment