Private Residence, Beverly Hills, California.
Garden: Designed lighting for 10-acre former Jack Warner estate, laid out for after-dinner strolls through formal terraces and rose gardens, down the 1/4-mile-long driveway colonnade of 50' high sycamores, or across a 3-story serpentine path fronting old stone waterfalls. The sycamores are carefully uplit as fine art, with 3 tiers of dimming according to height, and downlights hidden in live oaks cast shadow patterns onto the old brick and Turkish Limestone pathways.
Interior: Also refined the interior lighting and controls for the Main House. Miniature fixtures and projectors were added to complete the art, sculpture and table lighting in the main rooms, and the circuits for each extraordinary, museum-quality painting were separated for exactly-balanced preset dimming.
Beach House: Malibu, California. Added landscape lighting for expanding beachfront estate, where very soft, dimmed fixtures light the trees and paths through the sculpted myoporum groves.
landscape designer: Deborah Nevins, Deborah Nevins Associates, Inc., New York, New York.
designer: Rose Tarlow, Melrose House, Los Angeles, California.
Ford Plantation, Richmond Hill, Georgia.
Designed site lighting for 1800-acre resort on the Ogeechee River featuring low country Georgia homes, ancient live oak 'avenues', and the 1938 Guest Mansion. Designs to keep the gentle southern charm intact included continuing the gaslight street lanterns for the whole project, hidden landscape and subtle exterior lighting to encourage walking through the common parks, and the development of a “lighting standard” to ensure that all visible exterior and landscape lighting for private homes contributes to the plantation's particular serenity after dark.
owner/client: The Ford Plantation
architect: Donald Rattner, Ferguson and Shamamian Architects, New York, New York.
Denbigh Farm, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Designed landscape lighting for 34-acre estate featuring vine-covered pergolas, a linden allee, & English gardens for outdoor dining & after-dinner strolls. Tiny wrought iron & copper path lanterns were developed to seem as if they'd been there for 200 years, & aged copper sconces are tucked beneath pergola beams to encourage walks under grape vines & around the landscape. The north view from the Dining Room is of dimmed, layered uplights on an enormous beech tree, & the view of the Carriage House has been warmed up, by lighting occasional windows around the three stories & dimly washing the cornice.
landscape designer: Deborah Nevins, Deborah Nevins Associates, Inc., New York, New York.
architect: Allan Greenberg Architect, New York, New York, & Alexandria, Virginia.
designer: Wendy Nichols, Colefax & Fowler, London, England.
Private Residence, L'Ansecoy Bay, Mustique, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Designed landscape lighting for 8-acre beachfront estate set in a grid of coconut palms, spilling onto a beach of the whitest sand possible. Tiny fixtures uplight the cupolas of two open air dining gazebo's, set above a pair of 30' long lily pools, where dimmed lighting at the bottom silhouettes the sculpted plantings above. The electrical system for the entire site is submersible to protect the conduits from occasional flooding.
landscape designer: Deborah Nevins, Deborah Nevins Associates, Inc., New York, New York.
architect: Arne Hasselqvist, Arne Architect Services, Mustique, St. Vincent & the Grenadines.
designer: Wendy Nichols, Colefax & Fowler, London, England.
2nd Private Residence on Indian Creek Village, Florida.
Designed and renovated landscape lighting for 5-acre bayfront estate featuring sculpted allees of pleached ficus trees, and elegant water gardens of purple and white lotus flowers. We're developing a floating fiber optic fixture with a little lit crystal centered on a patina-ed copper plate, like a little floating votive candle, for catching the colors of the flowers without causing any glary reflections in the water from downlighting. Huge royal poincianas, ficus, & outdoor sculpture are cautiously uplit with most groups on separate dimmers, so the amazing views across the water are gently framed.
landscape architect: Patrick Bilton, Wirtz International, New York, New York and Schoten, Belgium.
Stoke's Bay Residence, Tucker's Town, Bermuda.
Redesigned landscape and exterior lighting for beachfront estate, with tiny, shrouded, heavy brass downlights staggered along trails to swimming or hammocks, and underwater dock lighting set up for feeding “trained” tropical fish at dusk. Security concerns introduced tiers of lighting control, also accessible in the main house, with marine-grade weather-proof buttons on teak posts set in the garden to turn on lighting as one descends down the paths for a late-night ocean swim.
owner/client: Stoke's Bay Estate
landscape architect: Madison Cox Design, New York, New York.
architect: Botelho Wood Architects, Smith's Parish, Bermuda.
Private Residence, Field Point Circle, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Designed landscape & exterior lighting for waterfront property with panoramic views from a hill over Long Island Sound. The Motor Court has dimmed uplights on towering oaks and a huge Japanese maple, & an outdoor Loggia faces the sculpted trunk & 50' canopy of an enormous copper beech tree. Miniature uplights catch tiny flowers & roses around the Pool House's fieldstone terrace, & little copper path lights follow the stone steps down to the dock & Boat House, whose glass cupola glows dimly above the Sound.
landscape designer: Deborah Nevins, Deborah Nevins Associates, Inc., New York, New York.
designer: Rose Tarlow, Melrose House, Los Angeles, California.
architect: Michael Dwyer, Architect, New York, New York.
Private Residence, South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida.
Designed landscape lighting for gardens & terraces of new Venetian mansion overlooking Lake Worth. Old banyans stagger up the entrance drive & are lit to ensure an equal amount of shadow to properly render their forms. Full height statues have uplights located for both terrace views & to show beyond hedge rows. All fountains have hidden underwater fixtures to light a lion's downspout or send shimmers onto terrace walls. Clusters of palms, sea grapes & ficus trees are lit throughout to extend the views from every window & terrace.
landscape designer: Deborah Nevins, Deborah Nevins Associates, Inc., New York, New York.
architect: Jeff Smith, Smith Architectural Group, Palm Beach, Florida.
Private Residence, Rock Ridge, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Designed landscape lighting for 2-acre estate, including a new Motor Court & stone terrace which doubles as an outdoor room. It's west wall curves up to arch over a stone bench & oculus, lit from behind to show an eyebrow of light after dark.
architect: Oscar Shamamian, Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, New York, New York.
Private Residence, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.
Designed landscape lighting for beachfront estate where white sand paths wind through the lush garden, connecting the guest rooms to the Dining & Living Room Pavilions. All landscape lights are on dimmers for setting the perfect mood for entertaining on family vacations.
landscape architect: Andres Montero, Dumon Design, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
designer: Mariette Himes Gomez, Gomez Associates, New York, New York.
architect: Allan Shope Architects, Wassaic, New York.
Shoys Estates, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.
Designed landscape lighting for the first half of a 20-acre beachfront estate featuring formal fountains & pools for every view, & full-size sphinxes in the main swimming pool lit from a concealed underwater trough. Phase II's design calls for 10 acres of Italian connected waterways leading to a stone amphitheater.
landscape architect: Madison Cox Design, New York, New York.
Private Residence, Lake Placid, New York.
Designed landscape lighting for waterfront cottages & boathouse for year-round use. A rock garden stream sluices down the property's east side with concealed fixtures in the pools, & white birch stands are dimly uplit in the distance as a sculpture garden.
landscape architect: Madison Cox Design, New York, New York.
Private Residence, Jupiter Island, Hobe Sound, Florida.
Designed landscape & exterior lighting for beachfront estate, with tiny downlights staggered in sea grape trees down the drive, & all paths lit by concealed, shrouded fixtures tucked inside border hedges. All fixtures are made of heavy cast bronze or brass to withstand the salt air, & sight line studies were preformed to hide all exterior lights from the sea turtle nesting beach.
landscape designer: Deborah Nevins, Deborah Nevins Associates, Inc., New York, New York.
architect: Robin Samuel Associates Architecture & Design, Brentwood, Essex, United Kingdom.
Private Residence, Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club, Boca Raton, Florida.
Designed landscape lighting for 3-acre estate featuring intimate promenade areas, outdoor sculpture, two Italianate courtyards with fountains & an indoor pool terrace garden.
landscape architect: J. Roland Lieber, Fort Lauderdale & Naples, Florida.
architect: George Storrs, Jr., Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Private Residence, Gin Lane, Southampton, New York.
Designed landscape lighting for 5-acre estate featuring English flower gardens around a 1/2-acre pond, a sculpture garden, an all-white garden with a Gazebo, & a poolside terrace garden. Occasional underwater lights in the pond softly wash the weeping willow branches dripping towards the water, which are backlit as path lighting for those strolling around the pond. When the wind rustles the water, the lighting waves with the breeze.
horticulturist: Peter Bertrand, Southampton, New York.
Private Residence, Versailles Estates, Muttontown, New York.
Designed exterior lighting for 5-acre estate featuring a 1-acre pond with waterfalls & an island gazebo, an outdoor pool terrace garden, the tennis court & an indoor pool/atrium terrace. Solutions included fixtures mounted on the roof for a 'moonlight' effect through the skylights in the atrium, & mounting backlights in the perimeter planters to silhouette the plantings around the pool. The lighting design was featured in a Home Magazine article on outdoor lighting.
architect: Michael A. Geyer, New York, New York.
designer: Anthony Tyson, Ltd., New York, New York.
landscape architect: Abbey Goodman, Boston, Massachusetts.
Private Penthouse, East 79th Street, New York, New York.
Designed lighting for wrap-around penthouse gardens featuring clusters of 20' cedar trees, trellises, & planters for every window view. We added lighting for outdoor dining & reading on separate dimmers, & enhanced the perspective views of both the garden & Central Park.
landscape architect: Jeff Mendoza, Mason Nielsen & Associates, New York, New York.
Private Penthouse, Park Avenue, New York, New York.
Designed lighting for 1200 sq. ft. penthouse garden featuring weeping birch & Japanese maple trees, & a 60' planter of window flower boxes with occasional miniature uplights tucked in. Solutions included mounting fixtures above the 35' awnings to provide soft, indirect light through the canvas for dining & reading areas below.
horticulturist: Patricia Schell, New York, New York.
Ammirati & Puris Terrace, 100 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York.
Designed lighting for advertising agency's penthouse terrace featuring a Japanese viewing garden with planters inlaid with troughs of sedum & river stones. Design eliminated glare for 3-sided viewing from offices & conference rooms, & compliments the southern views of city lights at night.
owner: Ammirati & Puris
landscape architect: Jeff Mendoza, Mason Nielsen & Associates, New York, New York.