A palette of primary-coloured perennials contained within a formal grid draws on early modernist painting and evokes a childhood spent in the Essex countryside IT VERY MUCH GOES AGAINST CURRENT TRENDS. ALMOST EVERY GARDEN AT CHELSEA THESE DAYS FEATURES NATURALISTIC DRIFT PLANTING

With former design partner Philip Nixon he scooped gold medals in 2005 and 2006, for an outdoor photo gallery and a sculpture garden inspired by Mies van der Rohe's riverside Farnsworth House, near Chicago. De Stijl's advocacy of pure abstraction, interpreted by Mondrian in paintings of wh...

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Published inDaily telegraph (London, England : 1969)
Main Author Lacey, Stephen
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Daily Telegraph 19.05.2015
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Design
Gardens & gardening
Trees
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Summary:With former design partner Philip Nixon he scooped gold medals in 2005 and 2006, for an outdoor photo gallery and a sculpture garden inspired by Mies van der Rohe's riverside Farnsworth House, near Chicago. De Stijl's advocacy of pure abstraction, interpreted by Mondrian in paintings of white, black and coloured squares and rectangles in an asymmetrical grid, were an invitation to designers to move away from the symmetry of classical formality towards more dynamic composition and freer arrangements of space, light, mass and shadow - and from clutter to minimalism.
ISSN:0307-1235