
Beautiful use of color (as usual) by Steven Gambrel in his renovation of an early 20th-century beach house.

Enfolded in a wonderful, lost Dorset valley, Upper Sydling House feels as though it is in another world. Dwarfed by the chalk downland that rises up gently on either side of the ice-scoured, U-shaped valley, the house plays to its landscape, with a garden that is bold enough to hold its own, but at the same time feels completely comfortable in its setting. With very little garden to build on when they got there, Alastair and Susanne Cooper decided to create a large walled garden where there h...

Having turned a farmyard into a walled garden at Upper Sydling House in Dorset, Susanne Cooper commissioned Isabel and Julian Bannerman to help her to create the beautifully structured series of harmonious spaces that showcase more of her beloved roses and frame views of the meadows beyond





















