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As anyone in Hollywood bonk well , sequel often let down . To redesign and improve on success without engild the lily is one of the majuscule challenge in any discipline . So when the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles acquired the twentieth - one C sculpture collection of benefactors Fran and Ray Stark , and needed a position to show it , the museum wisely returned to Dennis McGlade , a partner at the Olin Partnership and the original house decorator of the Getty ’s landscaping , for expertise .
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The commission was to enhance the existing landscape in guild to create compelling stage set for the expectant - scale leaf sculpture workings , and the aim owes at least a tip of the lid to showbiz .
By way of a collaboration with the Getty ’s 18 - class veteran horticulturist Michael DeHart , the grounds now blab in musical harmony with a arresting new form of characters . A brilliant blood-red de Suvero figure , Gandydancer ’s Dream , visually vibrates in a lush green outdoor stage of Genista raetam ; the glossy rosettes of Aeonium ‘ Zwartkop ’ resound the color of bronze deeds by Isamu Noguchi , Henry Moore and Elisabeth Frink .
DeHart and colleague Lynne Tjomsland are both old hand of Disney properties , and of Walt Disney ’s signature tune storytelling ethic . “ We ’ve used plants to draw the eye through , to delineate rooms by fashion of colour , grain and as a way of life to emphasize the sculpture , ” says Tjomsland . For example , Verbena bonariensis “ blossom a soft mantle of mauve ” among grizzly - clean artemisia leaf . See - through grey - bluing grasses extend and animate the effect . The LEED - EB - certified site includes trickle irrigation and exchange much of the mown lawn with granite way of life and California indigen .
A new T1 tram station was constructed so visitors could go from the street - degree parking readiness to the top of the hill where the museum is situate . The Modern garden , which open formally in 2007 , admit a green cap and several other patio , some travertine - step , along the hillside property that includes 150 develop estate on 700 acres of precious Los Angeles real the three estates .
McGlade , a student of the great Glaswegian Ian McHarg and a graduate of the University of Illinois and University of Pennsylvania , has other projects in the works : a new community in the Cayman Islands have tropical garden , a Richard Meier residential complex in Beverly Hills and a progressive community plan on a rescued riverfront “ brownfield ” locating in Napa . For the latter , the idea is to repurpose some of the honest-to-goodness industrial artefact , like rescued gauntry Crane , read McGlade . There might even be an outdoor picture show screen . “ Can you imagine viewing On the Waterfront there ? ” asks McGlade with delight .
The new Getty Gardens are closed on Mondays ; for more entropy call 310 - 440 - 7300 or seegetty.edu/visit .
