Tom Stuart-Smith
Tom Stuart-Smith studied zoology at Cambridge University and then read Landscape Design at Manchester University. He has been practising as a landscape architect since 1984.
In 1998 he set up his own practice and has developed a reputation as a designer creating landscapes that are modern, elegant and have a strongly expressed naturalism.
Gardens recently completed include a number of large private gardens in the country. Several of these have been extensively published, Including Broughton Grange and Woodperry in Oxfordshire, Wycliffe Hall in County Durham, and a new garden at Windsor Castle commissioned by the Royal Household to mark the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. The BBC documentary film on the making of the garden, entitled “The Queens Jubilee Garden – The Designer’s Story”.
His recasting of the Italian garden at Trentham has been part of one of the largest and most acclaimed regeneration projects of an historic garden in recent years.
More recent work includes the 2 hectare garden around the Bicentenary Glasshouse at Wisley for the RHS, opened to the public by The Queen in June 2007.
In contrast to the large scale projects he has now made 7 Gold Medal winning gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show. The first was a baroque ‘Bosquet’ designed for Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel in1998, This was followed by “Homage to Le Nôtre” in 2000 and a contemporary garden in 2001, both for Laurent-Perrier. His gardens for the same sponsor in 2003 and 2008 won Gold Medals and the awards for the best garden in the show, as did his garden for The Daily Telegraph in 2006.
A recent project on an even smaller scale is the Moon Terrace created at the Connaught Hotel in Mayfair. An evocation of landscape and natural process within a small, enclosed courtyard.
His work expresses the idea of the garden as a place that quietly articulates emotions and ideas, believing that the designer’s role is to set the scene without imposing a rigid narrative and that a garden should not bind us to a narrow vision. Rather the aim is to make places of imaginative possibility.
His studio is in Clerkenwell, London, but he lives and gardens in Hertfordshire from where writes occasionally for the Guardian Weekend Magazine.
ANDY STURGEON
GARDEN DESIGNER, JOURNALIST, AUTHOR and BROADCASTER
Andy is one of the UK’s leading garden designers. His modern designs are a fusion of traditional materials and contemporary styling which have become known for their timeless architectural qualities and innovative planting. Commissions include unique roof gardens and large country estates all over the UK with international projects in Hong Kong, Rwanda, Europe and the Middle East. His work is frequently featured on television and in books, magazines and newspapers worldwide.
Andy has won 4 consecutive RHS Gold medals at Chelsea Flower Show in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Both The Sunday Times and House and Garden Magazine placed Andy in the Top Ten list of designers in Britain. Recent accolades include Design and Decoration Awards, Health Care Awards and Principal Awards from the British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and the Supreme Award from the Association of Professional Landscapers in 2007. In 2009 Andy also won two International Gold awards from the American Association of Professional Landscape Designers.
He was one of only a handful of garden designers selected to exhibit at the highly acclaimed Westonbirt International Festival and in 2008 represented the UK at the Singapore Garden Festival. In 2009 he exhibited at Future Gardens, a new summer long exhibition of conceptual gardens from international designers. Andy is also a registered member of the Society of Garden Designers.
Andy has presented gardening programmes for all the major terrestrial channels including Chelsea Flower Show for the BBC for the past 5 years. He is a free lance journalist and has previously been a columnist for the Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Sunday Times.
His first book Planted gave the plodding world of garden publishing a kick up the backside with its ground-breaking approach and fresh outlook and was widely acclaimed both here and abroad. His second book Potted achieved the seemingly impossible by revitalising the tarnished image of indoor plants making them both stylish and desirable. A third book on garden design, Big Plans, Small Gardens is to be published in Spring 2010.
Andy contributes regularly to numerous magazines including BBC Gardeners World, Gardens Illustrated, English Garden and the international design magazine Terra Architectura. He also lectures around the world.
Andy worked at The Royal Horticultural Society Gardens Wisley and as a landscape gardener before graduating from the Welsh College of Horticulture in 1987. He has travelled extensively observing gardens and plants in their natural habitats and has also plant hunted in Madagascar and collected seed in Kenya for the Millennium Seed Bank.
Awards
2010 Association of Professional Landscapers Principal Award
2009 Principal Award Winner Design Excellence British Association of Landscape Industries
2009 British Association of Landscape Industries Award
2009 International Gold award American APLD Small Garden Category
2009 International Gold award American APLD Specialist Category
2008 Health Care Awards Best Outside Space
2008 Principal Award British Association of Landscape Industries
2008 Winner of 3 British Association of Landscape Industries Awards
2008 Association of Professional Landscapers Supreme Award
2008 Silver medal winner Singapore Garden Festival
2008 Gold medal winner RHS Chelsea Flower Show
2007 Gold medal winner RHS Chelsea Flower Show
2007 British Association of Landscape Industries Award
2007 SPATA Gold Award for Swimming Pool Design
2006 Gold medal winner RHS Chelsea Flower Show
2005 Gold medal winner RHS Chelsea Flower Show
2005 Society of Garden Designers competition winner
2005 Design and Decoration Award
2004 Design and Decoration Award
2004 British Association of Landscape Industries Award
2003 Westonbirt International Festival
2001 Silver Gilt medal winner RHS Chelsea Flower Show
1998 Silver Gilt medal winner RHS Hampton Court Flower Show
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