aesthetics and varying human scale could, it seemed to
me, still have a place.
A
rmand Hammer's diminutive townhouses on West
4th street in New York's Greenwich Village are the subject
of a sanguine article written by Hyland Contributing
Editor and former Town & Country Features Editor,
Richard Kagan, in this issue. They are now, fittingly, the
residence of Fairfax and Sammons, the husband and
wife design team, who are leading proponents of the
ongoing viability of classical architecture. The buildings
hold interesting memories for me.
In the generation since my conversation with the Prince
of Wales in the long gallery, Sutton Place benefited from
the addition of a beautiful modernist garden, originally
commissioned by then-owner, Texan art collector Stanley
J. Seeger. Seemingly rather reclusive, he did not attend
the party innaugurating his residency, nor did he ever give
an interview, owning the house for only a decade. He did,
however, commission modernist landscape architect
Geoffrey Jellicoe to design a new garden. Jellicoe, in
turn, engaged Britain's preeminent contemporary artist
and early Constructivist painter, Ben Nicholson, to design
a wall, now a place of pilgrimage.
HYLAND
