New Nordic Garden | Gläntan

The silent ambience of a garden is sometimes the best judge of success. This modern hillside garden is situated on a very unique site with challenging topography in a sheltered bay.

The landscape is comfortable, with arranged spaces on split levels balancing secluded privacy with the openness to the bay and surrounding landscape. The expansive limestone terrace is created to advantage of an infinity pool and serves as a retreat where the family can enjoy spending time socializing, dine al fresco and make delicious pizza in the wood fired outdoor pizza oven.

A small herb garden is placed nearby the outdoor kitchen, utilising a natural pocket in the rock bed. A wood pergola and arches complement the powerful sense of place. A sauna with a separate patio as well as a hidden vegetable garden adds to the series of garden rooms within this complex landscape.

The upper gardens are green and adventurous, with raised platforms and counter-sunken gravel gardens, to expose corten steel verticals, which with a rustic look connects to the warm cedar house. Planting beds are generous with groundcovers, perennials, ferns and shrubs with the vison that these gardens have a lush green look and feel, different from the open terrace in the lower garden.

This project was the recipient of a Silver Award in 2020 by APLD, USA.