Inside, Guillot references the infinite dome of the sky by making the ceiling and walls “vanish together into a high vault.”
“The story is the sky,” exclaims the landscape architect Perry Guillot when describing the inspiration for his playhouse and garden in Southampton. As this statement attests, Guillot approaches his projects with a vision that encompasses nothing short of the cosmos while hewing close to a minimal approach—a limited palette of plantings and materials, a purity of form, and a sensitive consideration of the history and natural features of a given site. The results are poetic landscapes that intimate the larger narrative of our place in nature.
Having made his home in the small hamlet of North Sea on Long Island for 14 years, Guillot is known for the artfully restrained gardens…
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Architectural Digest (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2021