An Urban Forest
While scouring Miami’s Design District oggling at high-end designer furniture we can only dream of owning, we stumbled upon this little courtyard surrounded by a dimpled copper fence.
This garden lounge, designed by landscape architect Enzo Enea, is about the size of our central courtyard, so we went inside and (over) analyzed it.
We love the strong horizontal and vertical lines working across the space. Seating is informal and the whole room seems equally capable of hosting an evening dinner party or a quiet afternoon with a book. With the sparse plantings composed of only a few species, the overall feeling is that of a restained urban jungle.
The only thing that gives us pause is the bamboo. Although beautiful, our landscape architect friend Patrick says that mosquitoes love to breed in the hollow branches and should therefore be avoided in mosquito-rich Mérida.
