13 June 2017

Sunnylands: A Garden Like No Other


The Annenbergs were very influential people. Leonore – government official, philanthropist and businesswoman: her husband Walter was a diplomat, publisher and, like his wife, a philanthropist. Although both are now dead and gone their California estate lives on and Nowness recently took their cameras to film the desert garden. It is quite something to behold with plants selected based on their colour and structure. The result is startlingly architectural and daringly impressionistic.