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A small, intimate garden that already existed was dubbed by Lombardi as the Olmsted garden. The plan came from the office of Fredrick Law Olmsted, designer of New York’s Central Park and considered the father of American landscape architecture. Lombardi added a white gazebo with a red bench to overlook the tiny circular reflecting pool with cherub sculpture.
“It’s a visual terminus, it’s a destination,” he says.
A Japanese maple grove sits directly across from the pool to buffer the direct view from pool to house, and also to showcase a contemporary sculpture. “It’s like another stop on the journey,” Lombardi explains.
