Villa liberty, Monza
Monza: Liberty rigor embraces the softness of the contemporary garden.
Steps away from the Villa Reale, the Liberty charm required respectful listening. We chose the solidity of Buxus spheres and noble Impruneta terracotta to anchor the project in history. But a garden cannot live on memory alone.
Our ambition was to bring, amidst these severe forms, an unexpected and vital breath. We wanted to demonstrate that the authority of the past can gracefully welcome a new and sophisticated natural freedom, creating a harmony that transcends eras.
The project’s backbone is entrusted to espaliered Carpinus, green wings drawing the space with geometric rigor.
Upon this ordered canvas, our pictorial intervention works by contrast. Sharp lines are no longer impassable boundaries, but frames for a planting scheme bringing softness and unpredictability.
It is a stylistic exercise where the static nature of plant architecture is animated by wind and light, transforming the perception of a place that now breathes and mutates.
The botanical palette is a chromatic crescendo. In the sun, a true collection of Agapanthus—four varieties differing in size and tone, from pure white to intense purple—dialogues with Nepeta, Salvia nemorosa, and Aster, ensuring blooms from May to October.
While in the shade Carex and Hydrangea quercifolia create dense volumes, in the more open areas the multi-stemmed Lagerstroemia indica break the formal rigidity with their natural architecture.
A complex ecosystem that thrives thanks to specific draining substrates, the invisible yet essential technical foundation allowing such diverse species to coexist in health.
These images, taken just six months after planting, are a prelude. The garden has not yet revealed its full scenic power, yet the vital energy is already palpable.
It is a work in becoming that we consider one of the most significant milestones of our professional path. A work destined to mature and surprise, revealing year after year how patience and technical care can elevate a landscape project into a form of living art.
