GARDENS
Blair Farris
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Linda Oyama Bryan
WRITTEN BY
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andscape
Ultimately, the most inspiring gardens
reveal their beauty not at once but in a
series of moments and delights. High
above Lake Michigan on the bluffs of
the North Shore, a young couple and
their three children bought a Glencoe
home to give them more space to play
and entertain. The couple hired the
award-winning firm of Hoerr Schaudt
Landscape Architects to renovate the
existing landscape and to create a series
of garden rooms that are revealed in
subsequent order.
Abie Baldwin, PLA, head of the firm’s
residential studio, and firm partner
Douglas Hoerr met with family members to explore their needs and to
become familiar with their wish list.
At the top of the list were an open lawn
for the kids to play, a variety of spaces
for entertaining, a pool, beach access
from the steep bluff and more privacy.
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