Home is as much a feeling as it is a physical presence. In The Landscape of Home: In the Country, by the Sea, in the City, Edmund Hollander takes readers through richly diverse projects and shares how he seamlessly designs the landscaping to perfectly complement the house. His choices of hard surfaces are sensitive to the materials used on the house, and the details of the landscape design are always totally compatible with the architecture.
Throughout, Hollander discusses essential elements in his firm’s work: the importance of the procession of entry to a house as well as its context in the landscape; the positioning of plant life and trees; the way people move into and through a property; and the way a garden looks and changes through the seasons. Within each project, there is a striking variety of components—outdoor rooms for living and lounging, including oceanside hearths, infinity pools, and verdant dining spaces, as well as pollinator gardens, naturalistic meadows, and tranquil allées. Site maps illuminate each project, and the images capture moments large and small, from views of winding pathways to a vine-covered arbor and a rabbit enjoying flowers at dawn.
Bunny Williams says, “Ed paints with the palette of the plants and sculpts with the forms of trees and shrubs. Whether it is a meadow with mown paths or a formal parterre, the gardens he creates seem in total harmony with the house and the land.”
