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"Over the past two decades, Judy Kameon, the founder of the design firm Elysian Landscapes, has created some of Southern California's most inviting outdoor spaces. She focuses primarily on residential gardens for clients like Sofia Coppola but has also completed some notable commercial commissions, including the grounds of the Parker Palm Springs, a project on which she worked closely with Jonathan Adler, who designed the hotel's interiors. Kameon's gardens have a casual, naturalistic feel but are marvels of precise botanical pairing, ingenious layout, and smart furniture and accessory selection.\n\nPinterestFacebookKameon was inspired by the work of James Rose, a midcentury landscape designer, when she created this casual seating area. Photo: Erik Otsea\n\nIn her new book, Gardens Are for Living (Rizzoli, $50), Kameon describes how she helps people transform outdoor spaces into enticing, highly personal living areas. The volume is divided into chapters detailing her pillars of good landscape design. In \"Putting out the Welcome Mat,\" for example, Kameon discusses strategies for converting traditional front lawns into unique and beautiful entryways. \"Art in the Landscape\" offers both practical advice for integrating sculpture and inspiring examples of how plants can be used to turn a landscape into a work of art, as shown at the home of artists Lari Pittman and Roy Dowell.\n\nPinterestFacebookKameon chooses plants that complement interior and exterior paint schemes, in this case orange kangaroo paws (*Anigozanthos* \u2018Orange Cross') that match a bright front door. Photo: Erik Otsea\n\nMost of Kameon's gardens are located in Southern California, but Gardens Are for Living is less about taking advantage of enviable weather patterns than about learning how to express one's own taste outside. Throughout the book, Kameon describes how she draws inspiration from art and fashion when composing outdoor spaces. It's a liberating approach that encourages personal creativity. As Jonathan Adler writes in his introduction, \"Judy Kameon should be a full-time Artist's Muse.\"\n\nPinterestFacebookAt a Beverly Hills home, Kameon added a fire pit and seating area against a retaining wall at the base of a steep slope. Photo: Tom Mannion"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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