>>> meet the designers behind projects featured in this issue
Marieann Green, ASID, IIDA, Marieann Green Interior Design, Inc.
Scottsdale, Arizona interior designer Marieann Green believes in the motto "Bloom where you're planted." She has to—she's been transplanted numerous times. Born in New Jersey, she became a born-again Manhattanite "as soon as I discovered the tunnel," studying at the New York School of Interior Design and later working in the city. A husband brought her to Seattle in the late 1960s, at which time, according to Green, it was nothing like the sophisticated city it is today. "Seattle was so vanilla then, you couldn't find frozen ravioli." A few years later, she moved to a mini-ranch in Visalia, California, where her clients were dairy farmers and grape growers. "For the first time in my life, my income depended on the weather and crops," she quips. By the time she landed in Beverly Hills, Green had established a successful interior design practice, one that translated quite well when she moved again, this time to the desert community of north Scottsdale. "I was terrified about the design market here in Arizona," she admits of her move eight years ago. "I had a good business in California, but it took about 10 minutes for me to be comfortable here." Her comfortable, versatile design for a Scottsdale home is featured in this issue.
Herbert R. Schaal, FASLA, EDAW, Inc.
Herbert Schaal grew up in the landscape business in the West—his father was a design/build landscape architect in Oakland, California. "I grew up digging holes, installing sprinklers and building fences," explains the principal of the EDAW, Inc. Fort Collins, Colorado office. "It just seemed natural to study landscape architecture in school." In between an undergraduate degree from Cal Poly and a master's from State University of New York at Syracuse, he also taught the subject at SUNY and at North Carolina State University. Eventually, though, he returned to the West, going to work for EDAW, Inc. in the Bay area. "I always considered the East as temporary," he says. "I like the dry air, blue skies and 50-mile views of the West." In 1974, he opened EDAW's Fort Collins office and facilitated the opening of the Denver office, leading the Colorado offices in projects for the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management, as well as the design of public gardens, arboretums and zoos. South Fork Lodge, an ASLA award–winning resort project spearheaded by Schaal, is featured in this issue.
Jim Verdone, ASLA, Verdone Landscape Architecture
It's been a busy year for Jackson, Wyoming landscape architect Jim Verdone, whose national ASLA award–winning residential project we featured in our May/June 2006 issue. He and his staff of 12 have been working on numerous high-end residential landscapes and several large land-use projects, including a 7,000-acre resort community in eastern Idaho. The self-proclaimed former ski bum, who launched his own firm in 1980, hasn't had much time to submit many projects for awards competitions. "I need to do it, but I can't seem to find the hours," he admits. Nonetheless, his 3 Creek Ranch golf community project that's featured in this issue managed to snag both a Merit Award and a Land Stewardship Award in the 2006 Colorado Chapter ASLA design competition, not to mention a 2005 American Planning Association award.
Scottsdale, Arizona interior designer Marieann Green believes in the motto "Bloom where you're planted." She has to—she's been transplanted numerous times. Born in New Jersey, she became a born-again Manhattanite "as soon as I discovered the tunnel," studying at the New York School of Interior Design and later working in the city. A husband brought her to Seattle in the late 1960s, at which time, according to Green, it was nothing like the sophisticated city it is today. "Seattle was so vanilla then, you couldn't find frozen ravioli." A few years later, she moved to a mini-ranch in Visalia, California, where her clients were dairy farmers and grape growers. "For the first time in my life, my income depended on the weather and crops," she quips. By the time she landed in Beverly Hills, Green had established a successful interior design practice, one that translated quite well when she moved again, this time to the desert community of north Scottsdale. "I was terrified about the design market here in Arizona," she admits of her move eight years ago. "I had a good business in California, but it took about 10 minutes for me to be comfortable here." Her comfortable, versatile design for a Scottsdale home is featured in this issue.
Herbert Schaal grew up in the landscape business in the West—his father was a design/build landscape architect in Oakland, California. "I grew up digging holes, installing sprinklers and building fences," explains the principal of the EDAW, Inc. Fort Collins, Colorado office. "It just seemed natural to study landscape architecture in school." In between an undergraduate degree from Cal Poly and a master's from State University of New York at Syracuse, he also taught the subject at SUNY and at North Carolina State University. Eventually, though, he returned to the West, going to work for EDAW, Inc. in the Bay area. "I always considered the East as temporary," he says. "I like the dry air, blue skies and 50-mile views of the West." In 1974, he opened EDAW's Fort Collins office and facilitated the opening of the Denver office, leading the Colorado offices in projects for the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management, as well as the design of public gardens, arboretums and zoos. South Fork Lodge, an ASLA award–winning resort project spearheaded by Schaal, is featured in this issue.
It's been a busy year for Jackson, Wyoming landscape architect Jim Verdone, whose national ASLA award–winning residential project we featured in our May/June 2006 issue. He and his staff of 12 have been working on numerous high-end residential landscapes and several large land-use projects, including a 7,000-acre resort community in eastern Idaho. The self-proclaimed former ski bum, who launched his own firm in 1980, hasn't had much time to submit many projects for awards competitions. "I need to do it, but I can't seem to find the hours," he admits. Nonetheless, his 3 Creek Ranch golf community project that's featured in this issue managed to snag both a Merit Award and a Land Stewardship Award in the 2006 Colorado Chapter ASLA design competition, not to mention a 2005 American Planning Association award.
