The EyeSwoon founder’s Cobble Hill garden is as appealing as the rest of her dreamy town house.For inspiration, Athena and Klausing drew from a Mediterranean palette.That’s when she turned to the expertise of landscape designer Brook Klausing, who leads the Brook Landscape studio.
Klausing situated the dining table and patio at a 45-degree angle instead of parallel to the back edge.“I was inspired by the angle on the back terrace,” says Klausing, referencing the rear deck that extends from the home’s parlor floor.“It was a way to tie that language into the lower section and focus on balance versus symmetricality.”
A monolithic river rock table sits on a quadrangle of Renaissance Dolomite stone.Brook Landscape hand-selected aggregate stones to fit between the pavers,creating a more even plane, and planted thyme to create an elegant bed of green.
Klausing and Athena, who is relaunching her beloved site, EyeSwoon, as an e-commerce marketplace this winter, collaborated on the design of the chunky cedar stools that flank the table, which Brook Landscape fabricated in a week.Another casual seating area centers a coffee table made out of bluestone excavated from the original yard and wood planks salvaged from the old boardwalk at the Rockaways.
- Interiors: Athena Calderone
- Photos: William Jess Laird
- Words: Jenny Xie