Tom should've proposed here*
We've danced all around the work of Jay Griffith on Land+Living, but we've never dedicated a post to his firm's work. We've featured the work of his former partner Rob Steiner, the garden of his current partner Russ Cletta and we linked to an article in the LA Times Magazine that featured his design for a residence in Rustic Canyon. But for some strange reason, we have never come across Jay's website before. Well, today we did, and we want to share it with you.
Jay Griffith's work is fit for a Hollywood movie, his landscapes are dressed sets in the best sense. So it is only fitting that many of his clients are Hollywood types as well. Jay's firms have always produced stunning visual compositions of color, material and space that unfold in carefully scripted sequence.
Firm: Griffith & Cletta
We like the firm's philosophy of reuse and climatically correct design. Their projects try to recycle existing landscape and hardscape materials on site (such as recycled concrete, see 3rd photo below). They also use plants that are native to the project region in their plans along with appropriate species from similar regions around the world.
"The OracLe"
Simpson Lab
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