Nick Macer to Niall Hobhouse
Thanks for the details. I have been away in Mexico.
I hope you don’t mind me commenting, but I feel I must … That design for the paths is awful. It is just the sort of naff rubbish that architects usually design for gardens. Very trendy, very now, very CUTTING EDGE, but as far as I can tell it apparently bears no relationship to the site, and as good garden design it simply doesn’t work. What are all those horrible, harsh, zig zag ends to the paths? Did anyone honestly imagine what it actually might be like ’on the ground’? To walk around? To be in? How it might make one feel?
I really pity the poor soul that has to try and pull together a beautiful garden that not only looks good, but more importantly FEELS GOOD out of that.
BTW I am the very opposite of anti-modern. I love good modern design. I detest the regurgitation of the same old tried and tested.
Saying all that, I wish you all the best and hope it all works out for you.