CLICK ON ANY OF THESE IMAGES FOR A FREE STREAMING SUBSCRIPTION OF HYLAND, a digital lifestyle magazine featuring residential decoration, design, architecture, art, travel, fashion, cuisine, good works and reflections.
Issue link: http://digital.hylandmagazine.com/i/117839
work at estates such as Skylands in Maine, now owned by Martha Stewart. The current palette of the grounds are a verdant mix of muscular hedges, towering evergreens, swaying maples, and posing dogwoods. With numerous cottages, a greenhouse, swimming pools and a tennis court interspersed throughout the rolling ground, these are pleasure grounds for adults and children alike, But it is the present farm group-with its stables, garage and staff quarters-that will prove your gentleman farming bona fides. Though the Farm Group as an architectural construct reached its zenith at Pratt���s Oval���a single, steroidal-scale administrative and service complex of tens of thousands of square feet for the Pratt family���s country houses in nearby Glen Cove���the farm group is more often a smaller series of interconnected structures that are to gentleman farmers what the Hameau de la Reine was to Marie Antoinette; that is, a functioning, agricultural fantasy. Should you establish paddocks on the property, you could house your horses and gardening gloves here. Or, if your thumbs are more greasy than green, you could turn over the entire space to house your collection of vintage Jaguars, Triumphs and Porsches. HYLAND