Cedar path through a planted woodland

02 / GARDEN + OUTDOOR LIVING

THE WOODLAND
RETREAT

LOCATION

New Canaan, CT

TYPE

Garden + Outdoor Living

YEAR

2025

SCOPE

Design / Planting / Lighting

THE BRIEF

To move through the existing woods as if the garden had always been there.

Rather than clear the shade, we made it the project’s atmosphere. A narrow cedar walk draws the route through ferns and boulders toward an evening fire circle held at the woodland’s edge.

THE RESULT

What was once the edge of the property is now the most inhabited part of it.

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