But fortunately for his admirers, next month's "Louis Benech: Twelve French Gardens" offers the chance to take an imaginary stroll through a handful of the designer's projects, like a private estate designed around a babbling stream in Normandy, France, and the paved public garden at Square Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier in Paris.
He also worked for the Rhinelander estate, designing a handful of informal red-brick row houses, among them 337-339 East 87th Street (1887).
Despite being rejected for listing in 2009, campaigners haven't quite given up trying to save the 1970s estate, designed by the influential British architects Alison and Peter Smithson.
Lucia Nuzzi-Meyer entertains nearly every weekend in the palatial ballroom of Clayton L'Hameau, her seven-acre 1907 country estate designed to resemble Le Hameau de la Reine, the rustic home built for Marie Antoinette in a park near Versailles outside Paris.
THROUGH whatever mechanism Russian immigrants managed to make the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn their own — be it demographic evolution or intelligent real estate design — things sure worked out well.
The vast baroque house and its estate – designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and landscaped by Capability Brown – was, by the 1980s, costing the family more than £100,000 a year just to heat and light.
Merrill, rich since birth, as he said, "whether I liked it or not," and one of the greatest formalist poets this country has ever produced, had seen this pattern play out in his family's houses (especially the Orchard, his father's Southampton summer estate, designed by McKim, Mead & White) and, painfully, in his own, in Key West; Stonington, Connecticut; and Athens, Greece.
The yacht club, established in 1952 on an estate designed by Stanford White, was given the right to build the residences -- efficiency apartments that would be leased to members from April 1 to Nov. 1 annually -- in a 1985 rezoning plan, said Mark C. Zauderer, the club's lawyer.
The average price of an interior finishing for a law firm was $83 a square foot at the end of 2002, compared with $93 for financial services firms and $60 for corporations, according to VVA Project Managers, a real estate, design, construction and relocation consulting firm based in New York that operates nationally.
The $6 Shelburne Farms admission fee ($4 ages 3 to 14) gives you access to Field Day events as well as to walking trails on the estate designed in 1886 by Frederick Law Olmsted with Lila Vanderbilt Webb and her husband, Dr. William Seward Webb.
