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"Garden Rooms\nA gallery featuring elegant conservatories, atriums, and sunrooms\u2014areas in the house that celebrate the immediate presence of nature\nPeter Marino renovated a 1929 Dallas-area residence for Nancy Cain Marcus. A vaulted breakfast pavilion, or conservatory, that resembles a domed tempietto was added at the west end of the house, with an adjacent terrace for entertaining. April 2006\nThe Cloister at Sea Island, in Georgia, was rebuilt by architect Peter Capone, who strove to capture but not mimic the storied 1928 original, designed by Addison Mizner. Always guiding Capone and designer Pamela Hughes on this project were the many preferences and passions that visitors had clearly expressed over the years. \"Bill [the hotel's chief executive officer] knows exactly how his guests like to live when they're at The Cloister,\" says Hughes. \"He'd walk into the solarium [above] while we were working and say: \u2018OK, they'll want to sit here in the morning, in this spot, at this angle, while they have their coffee.' He just knew. And he was exactly right.\" September 2006\nJames and Lisa Cohen commissioned Montecito, California-based architectural designer James Nigro and Manhattan-based interior designer Alexa Hampton to help shape a Tudor-style house for them near the Hudson River. Nigro designed the residence so that \"80 percent of the rooms\u2026would have views of the garden out back, the golf course to the side, and the lake and the Ramapo Mountains in front.\" The entire southern wall is radiused, with the garden room (above) fanning out into a columned, groin-vaulted pleasance of a loggia. February 2007\nFor a Southern California couple, architect Richard Landry created discrete structures to emulate the look of a small Italian village. Regarding the breakfast room, Landry explains: \"Unlike the terraces, where the outside is made to feel like an interior, this is an interior space but feels like an exterior.\" Its ceiling and outer walls are glass. A French beaded-crystal chandelier is over a table whose base was made from a Portuguese giltwood Corinthian capital. March 2007\nLongtime clients of Margaret McCurry, of Tigerman McCurry Architects, asked her to design a weekend residence on their property in southwestern Michigan. In the enclosed porch, the walls and ceiling are done in the same corrugated metal that sheathes the house's exterior. With doors and windows on three sides, the room spills easily onto the lawn. June 2009\nCarleton Varney and his clients \"worked together symphonically to create this environment,\" the designer says of an 11,800-square-foot Norman-style Long Island residence renovated and expanded by architect Norman Wax, of Wax Ferraro. Running along most of the house's rear elevation, the conservatory features such subtle Victorian-inspired details as mullioned transoms and Gothic Revival-style furniture. July 2007\nArchitects Austin Kelly and Monika Haefelfinger expanded and transformed fashion designer Randolph Duke's hillside Los Angeles residence, adding a second level and opening the house to the site's 270-degree views of the city. \"The experience of the house is integrated with the hillside and living outdoors,\" says Kelly. The dining area is adjacent to a patio and terraced garden. December 2007\nKenneth Battelle, the famed hairdresser of Jacqueline Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, wanted \"comfort, comfort, comfort\u2014and, more importantly, a garden\" at his country house on the Hudson River, he says. Turn-of-the-20th-century wicker furniture is in the conservatory, which looks onto the grounds. Kenneth relandscaped extensively, planting numerous evergreens and birches. \"Three-quarters of the year, I'm in the garden from dawn until dusk,\" he says. April 2004\nBuilt in 1913 for Burton E. Green, a founder of Beverly Hills, the home of Geoff and Anne Palmer received a thorough makeover from Los Angeles designer Craig Wright. The winter garden, a Neoclassical-style solarium that Wright conjured from an old plastic sunroom, is used as an informal dining area. April 2005\n\"It's English in style\u2014Lutyens with a Palladian twist,\" designer Marshall Watson says of the circa 1897 Summit, New Jersey, house he and his associate Holmes Easley renovated for Erika Anderson. A porch at Old Westbury Gardens inspired the conservatory's airy design. The brick walls \"help ground the space,\" Watson notes. The porcelain-and-gilt chandelier is a reproduction of ones found in the orangery at Versailles. January 2006\nArchitect Nicholas J. White drew inspiration from local Shingle Style cottages for William and Patricia Anton's northern Michigan summer house. Although the Antons entertain often, they eschewed a formal dining room. Instead, various informal indoor and outdoor spaces accommodate guests for meals, including a sun porch. May 2007\nArchitect Mark Hutker designed a Martha's Vineyard compound for Warren and Megan Adams. A lantern purchased in Paris hangs in the cedar-and-glass conservatory, which links the adjacent great room to the landscape facing the ocean and can be used all year. The limestone floor allows easy plant maintenance\u2014it can be soaked with water. June 2006"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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