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    A GRAND DESIGN

    Jul 30, 2020 2 minutes
    WORDS JACKY HOBBS
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    MARIANNE MAJERUS
    “NEILL ALLOWED US SCOPE TO WORK WITH THE ENTIRE LANDSCAPE TO BRING A SENSE OF PLACE TO THE HISTORIC HOUSE, WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY CREATING A GARDEN FOR HIS FAMILY’S ENJOYMENT AND ENTERTAINMENT”
    LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Colum Sheanon

    Emsworth sits at the heart of a 17-acre estate, surrounded by ancient woodland, just eight miles north of Dublin. A kink in the quarter-mile drive reveals the first. This country idyll is sliced through with a sleek, stone-edged canal pond, a modern trajectory that darts towards the house, punctuated by clean-shaven box pyramids and balls. A quartet of parterres filled with pink scented ‘Gertrude Jekyll’ softens the entrance, proportionately in tune with the relatively modest scale of the house. This is the remarkable first impression designers Murphy + Sheanon have created for this beautiful Irish home.

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