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Landscape architect Chris Brown of CMBLA incorporated drought-tolerant plants throughout the gardens aroundthe wall of board-formed concrete for a home in Newport Beach by architect Eric Olsen.

"Chris and Eric, our landscape architects, created the feeling of a house with a view without any view at all," says the wife. "We interact with the outdoors indoors, as well as out."

JAN/FEB 2024

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DEC. 2023

Brown’s landscape design drew inspiration from the husband’s memories of growing up in a nearby seaside community. “I wanted the gardens to hug the property with that same informal, comfortably coastal feeling,” the landscape architect recalls. Olive trees and wisteria vines frame the front entry, while fragrances of lavender, star jasmine and gardenia pocketed throughout the garden waft inside the house add to the ambiance.”

JULY 2024

”…Take the wooden boardwalk that leads into their property. It arrives at a thick copse of olive trees that landscape architect Chris Brown planted to shield the front facade’s two-story wall of glass from the glances of passersby.”