Coppertops
Post Modern Mountain Top
A dramatic, post modern house on 200 acres of oak and pine woods with broad fields and far-reaching views. A total re-do of exterior and interior architecture and interior design, byAD 100, Brian J. McCarthy Inc.
Landscape Goals in collaboration with Brian McCarthy
To update and reshape the areas surrounding the houseand beyond by creating a bold, naturalistic landscape of line and form, using a framework of steps and stairs, terraces and walls and massing of shrubs and trees with broad sweeps of perennial color, beginning with 1,000’s of spring bulbs.
Featuring as accents and focal points. the exciting Ceramic Art of Paul Massimo Popple, with hand made, one-of-a-kind pieces from his kilns in Tuscany.
Landscape Goals in collaboration with Brian McCarthy
To update and reshape the areas surrounding the houseand beyond by creating a bold, naturalistic landscape of line and form, using a framework of steps and stairs, terraces and walls and massing of shrubs and trees with broad sweeps of perennial color, beginning with 1,000’s of spring bulbs.
Featuring as accents and focal points. the exciting Ceramic Art of Paul Massimo Popple, with hand made, one-of-a-kind pieces from his kilns in Tuscany.
Town Garden
Dancing with Fireflies
(Rosswood)
A large and gracious 1920’s stucco house with guest cottage on 30 very private acres, with landscaped grounds, pine woods and distant views across open fields of wildflowers.
Landscape Goals
To redefine the original garden’s framework and bring color, fragrance and vitality to a dated and overgrown landscape, while enhancing the romantic look and feel of a lovely period property. Selective clearing, thinning and pruningof both woodland and original formal gardens, plus the removal of 1960’s plantings, allowed the property to breath again.
A selection of flowering trees and shrubs selected for autumn foliage and form, along with seasonal successions ofperennial color and bold plantings of tulips and daffodils created a wonderfully inviting setting for long, leisurely lunches on the terrace. And summer Parties with flowers, music and fabulous food while fireflies danced far into the night.
A large and gracious 1920’s stucco house with guest cottage on 30 very private acres, with landscaped grounds, pine woods and distant views across open fields of wildflowers.
Landscape Goals
To redefine the original garden’s framework and bring color, fragrance and vitality to a dated and overgrown landscape, while enhancing the romantic look and feel of a lovely period property. Selective clearing, thinning and pruningof both woodland and original formal gardens, plus the removal of 1960’s plantings, allowed the property to breath again.
A selection of flowering trees and shrubs selected for autumn foliage and form, along with seasonal successions ofperennial color and bold plantings of tulips and daffodils created a wonderfully inviting setting for long, leisurely lunches on the terrace. And summer Parties with flowers, music and fabulous food while fireflies danced far into the night.
Greenmeads Farm
Built high on a hill with a vast, panoramic view, this large, contemporary house sat at the heart of a renowned Morgan horse farm. Surrounded by hay fields and steep sloping meadows, with its “naturalistic” landscape of wild thyme and native plants gone wild, the setting was bold, beautiful and breathtaking.
But as bold and beautiful as it all was, the view was strangely disconcerting and the “naturalistic“ garden surrounding the house (planted in soli clay) impossible to maintain.
“The view is wonderful. But there is just too darn much of it, too much of a good thing,” the client confessed. “I always feel like I’m falling off the hill.”
“And”, she added, ”I want our guests to know which door to go in. Because it all looks the same, its confusing and they just don’t know where to go.”
Goal
To anchor the house firmly and comfortably to the land by framing the view and creating an intimate, inviting, easily maintained and clearly defined entry terrace area and garden with a succession of bloom and seasonal fragrance.