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Clouds and crystal installation
Cornerstone gardens and design
Today I’m taking you to one of my favorite spots in Sonoma, California called Cornerstone – a very cool garden/design center, and unique destination attraction just outside of the town of Sonoma in wine country. Conceptualized initially as an exhibit space for avant-garde and leading garden design and art, the center is a magnificent mixture of design focused shops, galleries and lifestyle boutiques. Cornerstone incorporates the best of wine country lifestyle to include: imaginative cafes, wine tasting rooms, wedding and educational facilities, design galleries and studios, antique stores, and a mix of home furnishing and garden based shops.
First lets take a look at some of the really cool garden installments:
Above is a simple grass meadow created with various California wild grasses and rounded sculptures adorning the mowed pathways … simple and yet cool don’t you think?
Mediterranean gardens
An eclectic planting mixed of agaves and grass mixed in with sculpture
Ceramic bamboo art canes between the rose beds
Late summer roses
Hard lines of the agave cactus contrasting with soft feather grass
Cactus and grasses
Inventive wire and stone fences create interesting divisions between
open spaces and gardening zones where a stand of artichokes are ready to
flower.
Artichoke buds
Cool design
The show gardens are quite exceptional and lovingly maintained. Designed by well-known landscape designers and installation artists – the various garden rooms represent a who’s who of famous personalities in the design and landscaping world. Cornerstone also offers an ongoing series of design and garden focused events, seminars and design or architectural activities. Currently, Cornerstone gardens are touted as the premiere center and fusion of art, architecture, design and landscape in California if not the United States, making it is worth a visit for visitors that admire and gravitate to aesthetics and design focused environments .
Above, an art installation you walk through rough timbers in a pond presents a precarious sensory experience.
sculpture in between the grasses
More sculpture and wild grasses
It’s easy to spend a pleasant morning or even most of the day enjoying the magnificent garden installations and galleries at Cornerstone in Sonoma. In an up-coming post, I’ll focus on some more of the design galleries and cool shops at Cornerstone that make this place worth visiting if you plan on going visiting Sonoma. Meanwhile, please come and visit these other bloggers below sharing their photo essays.
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love sculptural art that blends into the landscape!
Noel,
Very interesting and calming-loved the cactus mixed in with the soft and flowing grasses.
Thank you for hosting!
Jemma
Beautiful, Just beautiful! 🙂
There are botantical gardens in Tucson, Arizona that incorporate art with the desert landscape. Really fun to visit! I’m sure I’d like these gardens as well.
Finally I found thelink and submitted a post about a spice and cofee garden in Bali – hope it worked! Enjoy and looking forward to other submissions
This is a super cool place and yet another place in my own backyard I haven’t visited. The installations are amazing! I especially love the one where you walk through the rough timbers in a pond.
Love the contrast of textures and colors, Noel. Great post!
Cornerstone looks like a really neat place, and it’s always fun visiting different gardens. Sonoma is beautiful too. Cool pictures! Thanks for sharing.
Yes it is a fun place to explore and also photograph, thanks for commenting and participating Merete
Loved all the Pictures,So Amazing Noel.. 🙂
These gardens were very captivating and inviting. Thanks for sharing.
Ruth
There are some amazing pics. Thanks for sharing them
Noel, this garden looks awesome! I love when manmade elements mix with the natural. Thanks for hosting 🙂
Great Pictures, I love a picture of anything remotely garden related. I want to try and get some sculpture for mine, but its so very expensive, I have bee looking recently in architectural salvage yards and have seen some great bits I am saving to buy
I like this garden, especially the bridge…
The pictures of Cornerstone are amazing. Thanks for sharing them.
Exquisite arrangements.
All your wine country posts have really made me long for a return visit soon. Love all these gardens you’ve introduced me too but especially this one. How unique and interesting and I’m sure my kids would enjoy walking through those rough timbers.