Inspiring Landscapes


 

We’ve selected some luscious gardens and pristine pools that have us daydreaming of places we would rather be. We hope you enjoy our curation of inspiring landscapes.

This stunning pool is inspired by the Esplanade of Copacabana in Rio de Janiero. The pattern is reminicescent of Verner Panton’s Mira X textiles.

Photo: source

 

This zen garden is found at the Tofuku-ji temple located in Kyoto, Japan. It was designed by by Mirei Shigemori, (1896-1975) a Japanese landscape architect and historian of Japanese gardens.

 

Howdy! This boot-shaped pool is located in Texas and was photographed by National Geographic in April of 1980.

 

The iconic Roman Villa Doria Pamphili, a seventeenth-century villa with what is today the largest landscaped public park in Rome, Italy.

 

An Alexander Calder mobile is placed pool-side at the La Colombe d’Or, a 200+ year old hotel built in 1930 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence in the South of France.

 
 

Casa Cavanelas by architect Oscar Niemeyer and landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx located in the mountainous region of Petrópolis, 120km north of Rio de Jainero.

 

This angular pool is found at the Gerassi House (1988-1991) by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha in São Paulo, Brazil.

 

Rooftop garden of the Ministry of Education and Health, designed by Roberto Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro, 1938

 

A heart-shaped pool at the Apartamentos Montenova located in Palmanova, Mallorca.

 

Isamu Noguchi’s Pleasure Garden: The Landscape of Play in Sapporo, Japan, 1988.

Photo: Eric Pillault

 

Concept for the Mirage House by Kois Associated Architects on the Greek island of Tinos

 
 

The Round Gardens of Nærum, designed in the late 1940s by landscape artist Carl Theodor Marius Sørensen.

 

Luis Barragán’s Casa Prieto López, also known as Casa Pedregal (1947-1950). A stunning Preservation of the dark and rocky terrain (owing to a volcanic eruption some 1600 years earlier.

La Fábrica, an abandoned cement factory turned into the home of architect Ricardo Bofill in San Just Desvern, Spain, 1975

 

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A Picasso swimming pool for friend and dancer Antonio ‘El Bailarín’ Ruiz Soler in Marbella, Spain, 1961

 
 

Powis Castle, built around 1200 as a medieval fortress, sits high on a rock above its world-famous garden

 

Architect Manolo Mestre in Brava, Mexico

 

The Marqueyssac gardens in Vézac, Dordogne, France

 

Poolside at the Garcia House by architect John Lautner, 1962

 

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Ralph Lauren’s home in Montego Bay

 
 

Freestyle, Tim Street-Porter, 1986

 

Light: The Complete Handbook of Lighting Design, Susan S. Szenasy, 1986

 

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The Los Angeles House, 1995

 

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