RAVENWOOD

Pennsylvania

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A well-known film director commissioned this master-plan for a 130 acre estate in the countryside near Philadelphia. The existing 20,000 square foot house was completely transformed and a new 10,000 square foot gatehouse was added to the original house, creating a series of courtyards. 

An ambitious landscape plan was created including formal lawns, secret gardens, and large-scale outdoor rooms. The interiors include a large double-height library, secret billiard room, large family kitchen, and full movie theater. The project was featured in Architectural Digest in May 2012. 

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Ravenwood was designed by Richard Cameron and Jason Grimes for Ariel, the Art of Building; Construction performed and supervised by the I. Grace Company Commissioned Private Residences, Inc. Landscape design by Barbara Paca of Preservation Green, LLC. Decorated by David Kleinberg Design Associates. 

 

INSTAGRAM

'EIRENE' (Peace) Capriccio after Bernini's sketch for the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Peter's and a cupola from Madison Square Garden by Stanford White. RWC Atelier 2023 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called childre
Sometimes sketching random things-imaginary designs, buildings in Rome from Cipriani's illustrated et al keeps my hand in practice and the miles going g by on the train and after leads to design ideas for real projects-really doodling with a purpose.
One of the lesser known courtyards of Rome just down the street from the Trevi Fountain-the side loggia of the home of the Accademia di S. Luca in Rome. Imagine entering this every day with Borromini as your professor...
The Villa Medici in Rome, home to the French Academy since 1803. All the great Rome prize winners worked in this building sending their rigorous and painterly surveys of the Roman and Greek monuments back to Paris (see previous post). I remember seei
Santi Luca e Martina in Rome. Cortona's great church in the Roman Forum next to the arch of Septimus Severus and church of the Academia di S. Luca, the world's first academy of fine art. It has been a focus of study for many years since it was first
The sublime student work(!) Of Emmanuel Brune, 1er Grand Prix 1863 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The first image sits beside my drawing table to remind me of the standard to aim for in design and delineation...