Global Coverage of Louis & His Work
Louis & his work get plenty of media attention. Here’s a gallery of print favorites including “The Washington Post,” “The Boston Globe,” “USA Today,” “New York Magazine,” “House & Garden,” “Metropolitan Home,” “The Wall Street Journal,” & “Good Housekeeping.”
For dazzling details, click each image below.
Louis was at a party & asked a new acquaintance what she did. "Literary Editor @ 'Good Housekeeping'," she answered. She then asked whether Louis had a project that "GH" might want. Indeed, he did.
Two of Louis's three projects in "Design New England" are included in this gallery. This is Louis's own country garden in Rhode Island, which he created from the ground-up over twenty years. For another, click the "Louis standing beneath the huge hanging colorful glass things" in the image below.
Mosaiculture? Think 3D carpet-bedding. Louis was hired to design the entry of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. As a subject, he chose a family of swans who might be paddling the Frog Pond of the Boston Common. This is the mother, "feathered" with thousands of silver hens-&-chicks. See the whole flock—mom & her three cygnets—by clicking the Boston Flowershow image in this gallery.
An interview from "Washington Post" garden editor Adrian Higgins resulted from a prior "Metropolitan Home" feature on a client with severe bee allergies. (See the turreted house elsewhere in the above gallery & click that image.) This shot from that project shows the bee-free thrills of acid-yellow robinia, bright green juniper, and glossy southern magnolia.
One of so many projects of a lifetime, this tour de force—two acres of bravura design & horticulture in Connecticut—came to Louis as a result of donating a hefty consultation to a Goodspeed Opera fundraiser.
Over many years, Louis reworked this entire waterfront estate in coastal Rhode Island. The cover story focuses just on the first phase, the immense—200' X 40'—pair of curved beds of gigantic summer-loving horticulture between the house (up a hill behind the photographer) & the horizon-wide waters of Narragansett Bay..
Louis redesigned & replanted this world-famous garden literally from the ground-up, replacing the soil, too.. Over the next twenty years, he then renovated a number of the private gardens in the complex, Hepburn's among them. Her next-door neighbor Stephen Sondheim wrote in thanks: "...the garden is now astonishing."
For a September designer showhouse, Louis replanted a country estate's vegetable garden as a hot-weather parterre, tending its hundreds of annuals & tropicals all summer in preparation.
Louis reprised his "urban gardens" lecture in Back Bay, Boston, and was then contacted by a Manhattan-based writer from "USA Today." For more, see the "New York Magazine" article in this gallery, as well as the "Largest Private Garden in Manhattan" image in this site's Favorite Projects gallery.
Louis's very first coverage in a glossy magazine. The client's friends included a travel writer who knew an editor at "Met Home."
Decades ago, Louis grew his hair to his waist. Good to do—once. At that same time, he was just beginning a life-long infatuation with the gigantic foliage of empress trees that, as here, are cut back to their stumps in early spring.
Members of this client's family are severely bee-allergic, so the mystery of a dazzling garden that, nonetheless, bored bees silly needed to be solved. This coverage, in turn, lead to the "Washington Post" interview, also in this gallery. This client was another referral from the patron whose project graces the "House & Garden" cover in this gallery.
Louis was the Show Designer for the Boston Flowershow from the 90's to the early 2000's. The Mosaiculture project in Montreal was a one-off delight. Have you seen the immense swan elsewhere in this gallery?
A "Wall Street Journal" writer called about topiary. It was then early days for Louis in creating topiaries such as the hardy orange in spring bloom in this image—so he was happy to chat.
What better opportunity to embrace the biggest sequoia east of the Rockies than right after a blizzard?
Another extraordinary client referral. This is the front courtyard of a unique walled Art Deco city property in Providence, Rhode Island, with unstinting design flourishes everywhere.
A first for “The New York Times:” Our throbbing-purple banana, Ensete maurelii, channeling a Justice Of The Peace as preparations for our 080413 wedding rolled on despite—as well as because of—a recent cancer diagnosis. (Mine. One radical-nephrectomy later & I was all fine. And still am.).
