Innholdsfortegnelse for May/June 2020 i Flower

IN SUMMER TO SUMMER: HOUSES BY THE SEA (Vendome, 2020), writer Jennifer Ash Rudick and photographer Tria Giovan, the talents behind Out East: Houses and Gardens of the Hamptons (Vendome, 2017) have teamed up again to deliver a collection of magical summer houses in Maine, Nantucket, Provincetown, Martha’s Vineyard, and more, showcasing a bevy of styles for summertime living. We can almost feel the beachside breezes and sand under our feet while gathering decorating ideas to try. Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style (Princeton Architectural Press, 2020) by Christin Geall offers a fresh, thoughtful approach to arranging. Art and art history have influenced Geall, and she writes about how paintings can provide guidance about color, light, and movement. The chapter on creativity encourages all us to train, practice, and study…

A lot of the work we do is with cut flowers, but for this setting I wanted to work with materials that last. Potted plants are a very easy way to decorate a table scape, and afterward you can take the plants with you or give them as hostess gifts—they have the benefit of staying power and add a beautiful decorative touch to any table. Potted florals offer an enduring décor option for special occasions. If you bring them home, simply put them on your patio table, where they will live permanently as decorative pieces and provide longer-lasting enjoyment than cut flower arrangements. You can also add these potted accents to table settings, adding other floral details that complement the potted arrangements. “You can evoke the garden in many ways,…

The overwhelming experience of Highgrove exudes a sense that its inhabitants cherish every nook and cranny on the property. Elegantly set in Gloucestershire’s gentle landscape, where stone villages were once home to a thriving wool trade, the 340-acre estate featuring 15 acres of gardens generously welcomes visitors. Explaining his love affair with the house in a short film that precedes every guided tour, Prince Charles describes the circumstances of his acquisition of a rather dilapidated property in 1980. “I felt passionate about it,” he said of the 18 th - century house and sweeping grounds. “I felt I could work with nature, not against her, and make as little impact on the environment as possible. They say gardening is reflective of a person’s soul, and that is a wonderful way…

Interior and event designer Rebecca Gardner of Houses and Parties has loved to set the scene for shimmering happenings from an early age. “I celebrated my 8th birthday with a fashion show party,” she recalls. “My friends came dressed in fantasy looks and walked the driveway down the side of my house. A glamorous local newscaster served as emcee and announced each guest by name. I closed the show dressed as a bride in shiny off-white polyester.” Gardner credits her uncle—a multitalented aesthete with a flair for the chic and surprising gesture in cooking, entertaining, and design—with inspiring her own style. On hearing of my plans to visit Savannah, Georgia, for a couple of book-signing events, Rebecca, a good friend of mine, seized upon the idea of throwing a dinner…

THE SUN TAKES ITS TIME CLIMBING ABOVE THE CONIFERS THAT JOIN LIMBS TO ENCLOSE PLANTSVILLE PINES. But even before the sparkle illuminates a labyrinth of blossoms lapping at walkways and arbors plumped with vines, this garden has a surreal quality. Hidden in a no-nonsense industrial Connecticut town, this is the landscape that happened when two dedicated gardeners dug in and built from their heart on a shoestring. Never for a moment did George Anthony Jones and Dean Delgiudice doubt that making their own paradise was possible, and it shows. Jones and Delgiudice are driven by dreams and propelled by a mutual thirst for beauty. Not incidentally, they both have a strict work ethic. Even when Jones was working full time in computer technology and Delgiudice in teaching, they always dove…

Among dozens of pausing places, glorious Bath, with its harmonious crescents of elegant Georgian buildings, should not be missed. Charming Tetbury, a stone’s throw from Highgrove, is a definite must-see. The Close, in the market town’s center, features 20 beautifully appointed bedrooms in a sophisticated town house. Dine inside or out at The Bar at The Close, or book the more formal Garden Room Restaurant. Ten minutes from Highgrove, The Hare & Hounds, an old Cotswolds manor, off ers freshly decorated rooms. Jack Hare’s Bar has seating around the fire, and The Beaufort Restaurant is all about fine cuisine. Three miles from Tetbury, Westonbirt, the National Arboretum is worth a stop. Home to 15,000 specimen trees from everywhere, it features the unforgettable Stihl Tree Top Walkway, along with walking trails…

AT JUST 5 YEARS OLD Anita Wong started learning the Lingnan style of Chinese painting, continuing a generations-old family tradition. After studying with a master painter for more than 10 years, Wong moved to London to attend Central Saint Martins after graduating from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Later she received an MFA and MA from Maryland Institute College of Art, where she was a teaching assistant. Despite all her studies, Wong admits to being lost as an artist for a long time. Trained as a traditionalist, she found herself following a lot of rules. “I didn’t know how to break them, and I didn’t want to give up on traditional art just because the world had already moved on to contemporary art. I didn’t want to blindly follow any trend…

JUST THE IDEA OF AUSTRALIA evokes romantic notions and exotic landscapes. For interior designer Charlotte Coote and her family, the extra or dinariness of it all is simply a way of life. Their home, an 1890 weatherboard house and 16-acre garden in Mount Macedon, Victoria, christened Marnanie, is a place that stirs Charlotte’s creative energies and allows her, husband Geordie Taylor, and their three daughters plenty of room to let their imaginations run wild. “They run up into the garden and mountain woodlands for hours on end,” Charlotte says. “Growing up in the countryside gives them a real sense of freedom and fosters a curiosity that I love.” One of the country’s most famous garden regions, Mount Macedon was established in the early 18th century by Melbourne society as a…

Gold Parterre charger ($195), 8-inch plate ($80), and coffee cup and saucer ($95) by Halcyon Days, halcyondays.co.uk • Contessa milk jug ($275), teapot ($535), dinner plate ($254/set of 2), and bread plate ($188/set of 2) in Indaco by Richard Ginori, richardginori1735.com Soleil Levant salad plate ($90) in Lilac and bread-and-butter plate ($54; to the left of coffee cup and saucer) by Bernardaud, bernardaud.com • Renaissance Amber water glass ($230) by Varga, devinecorp.net • Festival dinner napkin ($52/set of 4) by Sferra, finelines.com• Flux napkin ring in Gold ($88/set of 4) by Kim Seybert, kimseybert.com• Torsade flatware ($1,600/5-piece place setting) by Buccellati, buccellati.com • Lyrebird linenblend fabric in Aqua (to the trade) by Matthew Williamson for Osborne & Little, osborneandlittle.com…