By tending to the relation of physical elements — colour, texture, shade — alongside the ineffable components of atmosphere and mood, Lara Morabito creates gardens and outdoor spaces that reflect her sensibility as an artist and her mastery as a designer.
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About Lara
Trained as a painter, practising as a gardener
Lara came to landscape through painting, and still designs the way she once composed: in tone, mass and interval. Each garden begins with weeks of watching — where the water goes, where the light lands in February, what already grows there and wants to stay.
The result is work that rarely announces itself. Gardens that feel less designed than uncovered, and that grow more like themselves each year.
Read more“A garden must combine the poetic and mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.”
— Luis Barragán