Garden design and architectural harmony in outdoor living spaces
The text links garden design to architectural and interior styles, stressing coordinated materials, shaded seating, and architectural features like pergolas, arbors, and summer houses. It suggests gardens as outdoor living rooms, with focal points, water features, and careful scale to avoid glare and heat, citing Brookline as an example of varied wickers and decor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Brookline
Massachusetts
Garden Taste and Sculpture for the Landscape
Cushing Smith a landscape architect extols blended colors in garden design recommending brick tinted stucco terra cotta tile and warm tones over bright red brick. He praises sun dials gazing globes and bronze figures as accents shaping a living artful space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cushing Smith
Valuable Browne Landscape Gifted to Kenilworth School
A 1913 landscape painting by C F Browne was presented to the Joseph Sears school at Kenilworth by Misses Eleanor Charlotte Brian and Elizabeth Eckhart daughters of Percy B Eckhart of 206 Cumberland avenue The work is described as among Brownes best and a premier addition to the school gallery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
C. F. Browne
Joseph Sears
Kenilworth
Eleanor
Charlotte
Brian
Elizabeth Eckhart
Percy B. Eckhart
Cumberland Avenue
Mr. Browne
Kenilworth School
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the Andscade
Department Cushing Smith
America
John Ostrowsky
Asbury Avenue
Hubbard Woods
Winnetka
Highland Park
Nurseries
Ravinia Nurseries
F. D. Clavey & Sons
Highland Park, Ill
Ravinia Park
Jerry Kucera
Oak Street
Col
Rosewood Avenue
Winnetka, NL
Frank Borovicka
Center St
Vincas
Willow St
Glencoe
S. Bileth
Winnetka Landscape Co
M. J. Sullivan and Son
Pine ST
F. Mueller
Scott and Linden Ave
Hubbard
Wilmette Bird House
Linden Ave
Wilmette
E. B. Taylor & Co
Center St. Winnetka
Henry C. Weinecke
Vernon Ave
North Shore Garden
Ray W. Gloede
Wilmette Illinois
Consult
Thomas J. Lynch
North Shore
Prouty Annex
Lake Forest
Franken Bros. Nursery
Deerfield, Ill
Darwin
Franken Bros
Tre
Ye. Platas
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