Eastern Culture Garden in Upstate NY Innisfree Garden Innisfree Garden
Located in Millbrook, a small town about two hours' drive from downtown New York
The entire garden covers about 150 acres
It’s Lester Collins. It took 15 years.
Inspired by Chinese garden architecture
Combine the essence of modernism and romanticism
Integrate traditional Chinese and Japanese garden design principles into one
Quiet and peaceful landscape garden in the 1920s, this was originally the country house of the artist Walter Beck and his wife
They met and loved each other after middle age
Walter Beck is a painter of gardens, graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich
Art has a common obsession, Mrs. Beck inherited a large inheritance from the father of the king of mining
Including this 150-acre field in Millbrook
Although the scenery here is beautiful, it doesn’t have much to do with culture
They don’t want to build this place into a tedious and old-fashioned Renaissance mansion
Until the 1930s, I saw Wang Wei’s Wang Wei, a Chinese painter and poet of the Tang Dynasty. The painting took the villa as the main body and center, expanding outwards. The details and uniqueness of Walter’s paintings
The "cup-shaped garden" of the structural form impresses and inspires inspiration
I wanted to build a garden that interprets his poetry and paintings and integrates oriental Zen in 1938, at a lecture on Chinese gardening at Harvard University.
They met young student Lester Collins, and the three of them worked together to put their ideas into reality
They carefully built the Asian garden in their hearts, step by step, and every turn has a different surprise
Later, this young student Lester Collins became the head of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University School of Design.
He is also a very famous international garden architect.
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