Thursday, August 30, 2012

Melding Design Layers

 
Garden rooms are created in melding layers: ceiling, walls, floors, aka, trees-shrubs-groundcovers.  In NYC this French restaurant has amazing melded layers.
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Is there anything worse than the ubiquitous Flower Show garden?  At a glance novice eyes sees stone terrace, shrub line, tree line, no melding of layers.  Why walk in to see the garden, you can see it all from the aisle.  (No I'm not forgetting those huge piles of stone called outdoor kitchens,  they are so bad I will not speak of them.)
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 I asked about the floor, below, and our server smiled.  He said the hand-made tile flooring cost more than everything else in the decor.  It was special ordered for their space from Morocco. 

With that attention to detail you know the food was good.
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Garden & Be Well,     XO Tara
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Pics taken this summer.  I keep fantasizing about creating a landscape with this flooring as inspiration !!
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2 comments:

  1. Renée FinbergAugust 30, 2012 at 9:45 AM

    i love the floor.
    it reminds me of the tiles at 'country floors'
    and Portuguese tiles.

    my faves!

    xox

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  2. Desert DwellerAugust 30, 2012 at 8:02 PM

    Great concepts, Ms. Barbuda. From the horrors of outdoor kitchens (little big boy toys) to all the cliches, etc, garden show displays are a drag. What you show is refreshing, meant to be - those floor tiles, wow! We have a restaurant with a patio, and other places, where the owners plant raywood ash trees on 6' centers to fill in fast, and by now, a real planting of value would be larger and better...gag. Yet the people in Abq eat it up.

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