Alison Carlson
Rebecca Lazenby joined forces with Alison Carlson, so that in-house landscape design can be offered to clients as an integral part of the design process. So often, landscape planning is added in at the tail end of residential projects, which we feel is a missed opportunity to collaborate with creative talent with broad expertise in outdoor space planning, hardscape, land manipulation, and plantings. Landscape can build up drama and set the tone for a project, as it is often what you experience first upon your approach to the entrance of a building. What is more elegant than a long allée of trees framing a distinctive building in the distance, a rambling drive leading up to the main property with elements of surprise as you get a glimpse of a stunning view or garden folly along the way, or the intrigue of walled gardens formed by hedges, creating intimate spaces to get lost in? It is our hope that these types of romantic gestures in landscape are conceived in the early planning phase to enhance and highlight the architecture we pour so much passion and energy into designing. By bridging the gap between architecture, interiors, and the beauty of cultivated and natural surroundings of each unique project site, our designs are inherently stronger and clients have one less thing to add to their to-do list when planning for their future home or project.
Images provided by Alison Carlson from her portfolio of residential work.
“She had an interest in the architecture of garden design, in seeing that the garden was a reflection of the style of the house and the reflection of the life of the owners.”
— Bill Noble