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Web Exclusive :: Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville
February 4, 2009
The Antiques and Garden show is nationally recognized for bringing together beautiful art, lush landscape design, and fine antiques in one spectacular event. This year’s theme “Sustaining Beauty” allowed for a simple yet elegant use of plant and building materials. The theme exhibited the show’s focus on meeting the needs of society in an aesthetically pleasing way without compromising natural resources that are needed for future generations. To communicate this message, the 2009 Show invited renowned experts to offer fresh, creative garden, interior, and landscape designs to inspire others to embrace a greener lifestyle beautifully.
The entrance—“Tomorrow’s Eden”—designed by floral and event designer extraordinaire Renny Reynolds was envisioned as a fantasy garden of the future. Reynolds used mulch made of recycled glass, fabricated iron trees, and hardy plants such as succulents and banana leaf trees surrounding a water feature, with birdsong playing in the background. The feel was primitive and futuristic at the same time. Quite a feat!
The Garden house was designed to provide shelter and a garden (the green roof is a garden itself and channels water to the plants below). The house and garden were designed by Benton Peters of Benton Peters Landscape Architecture (www.greenspacecowboy.com) and Josh Powell of J. P. Renovations and received the Don Shadow Horticultural Excellence Award.
Guest Lecturers left to right: David Howard, former Head Gardener at Highgrove House, the Gloucestershire country estate of Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. Charles Birnbaum, renowned landscape architect and cultural visionary author of award-winning online series Cultural Landscapes as Classrooms. Barry Dixon, interior and furniture designer identified by House Beautiful as one of America’s top designers.
Legendary event and floral designer Renny Reynolds with Antiques and Garden Show board member, past show Chairman, and flower magazine advisory board member, Jane Sloan.
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