Jane and I visited Kykuit, the family home of the John D. Rockefeller's (and final home to Nelson and Happy Rockefeller). We took a tour that spent quite a bit of time in different gardens of the home. The original designer went wild and developed a set of outdoor "rooms" as gardens. These pictures are from my favorite, the "creek" garden.
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| The hilltop was pretty barren on building the house. All the dirt and plants were brought in. |
Today this would be done more traditionally Japanese - since this is what we associate these gardens with, but in 1908 when it was designed and built, the Japanese or Chinese Garden's hadn't been widely known.
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| Nelson Rockefeller collected modern art - this is a Niogochi which he put here in the 1960s. It works perfectly. |
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| One of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s children (Abby) collected Japanese Art and placed this here. It is a wind chime that I actually like. |
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| This is Jane outside "the grotto", the starting point of the creek. It was very cool (both in beauty and weather). |
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| This is the backside of "the grotto" and you can see how it is hidden from everything else. |
