This property is situated on a mountaintop with expansive views across the Santa Monica Mountains. With a passion for modern architecture and art, the clients wanted a garden that reflected their aesthetic. We crafted a design framework programming outdoor rooms for living and entertaining, incorporating sweeping views, generating usable spaces throughout the site, while maintaining a family-friendly environment.
As part of Phase II, we weaved the clients' favored planting palette - succulents and exotic plants - intensively throughout the garden. The rear garden took advantage of the property’s edge and was augmented with natural grasses and floating platforms with a place to relax, socialize by an outdoor fireplace, and take in the view. Concrete is used as a unifying thread that joins the spaces together, sometimes solid and in other places becoming eroded walls and walkways of gravel. A custom-designed pond infused the garden with the gentle sound of water; and several custom-designed pieces for the clients including a dining table with laser-cut tile within a steel frame and two retractable shade structures--a grid of six custom canopies with integral lighting, and Ipe wood inserts.
