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On
Thursday, December 3, 2009 at
2pm landscape architects Jorge
Sanchez and Phil Maddux
speak
on and sign copies of their new
book The Civilized
Jungle: Residential Landscapes
of Sanchez and Maddux.
The event will be held at the
Preservation Foundation's office
located at 311 Peruvian Avenue
in Palm Beach, Florida. It is
free to all, though seating is
limited. To make reservations,
or for more information, please
call 561. 832.0731
Along the lush beaches of the
Florida coast, the gardens of
Sanchez and Maddux have crafted
a distinctive language of
tropical luxury in the
landscape, an approach coveted
by connoisseurs for an endless
visual richness that is matched
only by the designers' botanical
mastery. Since opening their
practice in Palm Beach in 1982,
Jorge Sanchez and Phil Maddux
have become internationally
renowned for divining a delicate
balance that twines the leafy
profusion of a rain forest with
a clear-eyed view toward
elegance and practicality in the
ways their clients live, and
they have given a name to this
unique vision: the Civilized
Jungle.
Their sense of control in the
landscape covers all scales,
from the prayerful quiet of a
small, private terrace to the
unfolding revelations of a
jungle path to the epiphanies of
a wide, open lawn in the sun
framed as a formal vista. They
artfully calculate the
experience of both stillness and
motion in a garden, combining
plant textures, shapes and
colors in ways that appeal to
the heart in the episodic manner
of the sweetest fugue. Each
composition is unique, for each
is meant to reflect and enhance
the lives of specific clients,
lives they seem able to read
between the lines as they
furnish them with the source of
ineffable, ever-reviving joy
just outside their doorsteps.
Over
nearly three decades, the
designs of Sanchez and Maddux
have evolved to suit the
discriminating tastes of garden
lovers throughout Florida and
the United States as well as the
Bahamas. Their garden journeys
have grown more challenging, and
more fascinating, along the way,
as their expertise
and intuition as plantsmen have
seasoned into a solid,
inimitable authority
that knows exactly the soulful
intersection where nature and
art coexist in vibrant harmony. |