H&H scored on goal last week with another great issue. Swinging hi and low, with some great design and some great stories, we tip our hat and blog it all.
This surprising wallpaper to the left?
Light Wallpaper by Corinne Ulmann and Isamu Kanda, who won a contest called Surface Over Structure at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Top Stories
- Small Footprints on a Vast Montana Landscape: Tasteful architecture out in Montana from architects Richard Fernau and Laura Hartman of Berkeley, CA.
- When the Party's Over, It's All Serenity and Light: Mike Cannell continues to moonlight for his old flame. This time he's covering the austere but stunning LA home of Tom Whitman, designed by Michael Neumayr and Pia DeLeon. Favorite resource? Pia DeLeon, a lighting designer (and Micheal's wife) who runs Plug Lighting on Melrose.
- New Urbanism - It's in the Army Now: Gone are the dull barracks of yesteryear, as the military upgrades their digs to lure and keep new recruits and their families.
- Abruptly, an End Comes for a Garden Shangri-La: Anne Raver reports from the gardening front: Burpee shuts down Heronswood and moves their plants from Washington state to PA. Shocking. It's Barnes & Noble knocking off the local shops all over again.
I feel very badly about that garden, but I sort of feel that the sellers were being a bit naive if they felt nothing would really change. Corporate America has different priorities than an individual proprieter, which is unfortunate, but a reality.
We were in Eastern Oregon this week and came across a fantastic old grainery which has been converted into a cabin. Take a look!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalydaly/165854953/
Wow, so sad to hear about Heronswood. I spent many a fond evening reading their catalog and spent a regrettably large amount of cash there every year! Heronswood was really in a class of it's own. Even worse, it appears that the amazing (and nearby) Roslyn Nursery is also closing! Truly the end of an era...
I worked for Burpee during the time George Ball acquired Heronswood, opened Burpee Gardens, and Burpee flowers. Despite positive sales projections on all fronts he shut the retail division down after less than a year. We were all lied to prior to the closure. In retrospect, I think he was trying to "prove" something to his family.
When his mother died, and his father incapacitated after a stroke....he no longer had to "prove" anything. He is an odd, tragic figure. He is also NOT a businessman. I first met him traipsing through the office in his overalls and wellingtons. He should stay out in his cornfields, and leave the "business" to those that know how to run it. I'm not too bitter anymore...but he really did a number on many peoples lives....In the mean time....I wouldn't plant a Burpee seed if you gave it to me.