designed a landscape architect based in Laguna Beach who travels the world through the homes of wealthy clients and celebrities and create lawns and gardens restored the gardens of a property of 9.4 acres, which has $ 52 million hit the market Montecito.
Landscape surrounding Robert E. Truskowski 21,345 square foot Villa Italian-inspired, which belonged to the late Ed Snider, which owns the Philadelphia Flyers.
Besides the main house with eight rooms, the field contains a two-story pavilion Tennis has a bar and a rooftop observation deck, a guest house with two bedrooms and a pool with a cabana for a room.
Behind the gates a tree lined road leads to the mansion, framed by stone columns and railings. Terraces and large glass walls offer ocean and mountain views.
Part of the land was originally designed in 1947 by famed landscape architect Lockwood de Forest Jr., who died two years later. In addition to restoring integrated Truskowski plots that were added later, all in a unique landscape design, seamlessly.
"My goal is to make the new garden was next to appear as if they had been done by the same hand," he said.
The house, designed by architect David E. Martin, was built in 2001 to replace an earlier structure. Truskowski he said for about five years in the project worked from 1996 to 2001 the planting of "hundreds" of trees, visited us and Commercial Mowing there about ten years treated.
Among the highlights:
Restoring a mirror of calm water in the backyard enjoying a cascading fountain with water and bath, four-story plume.
At the front of the house, he installed a circular fountain surrounded by hedges with sheared openings reveal the ornamental urns pool.
The pool was designed with the throne wall to look more like a water level of the 30s and 40s as a typical Southern California pool terrace.
An independent garden with succulents and exotic plants, including aeoniums and agaves, was created as a tribute to Lotusland, well known, near the garden.
The wide variety of trees on the property include Washingtonia, the Canary Islands and the reclinata palms, Italian Cypress, Eucaplyptus 100 years Olivos, Magnolia, Pine star and California live oaks.
Truskowski, based in Laguna Beach for more than four decades, has designed a shark lagoon for a palace in the Red Sea and a floating massage pavilion for a property on the French Riviera. He built also developed Mick Jagger on the island of Mustique gardens to succeed.
Montecito area, he said, is an important neighbor - Oprah.
Susan Burns, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage and Jason Siemens Sotheby's International Realty are the agents of the announcement.
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