You Say Tomato
The Results Are In! Over 120 tomato aficionados showed up Sunday to watch a Spicy Gazpacho cooking demo by Master Chef Eric Hollis, taste 22 tomato varieties from the Cornerstone’s Kitchen Garden and 22 varieties from contestants’ home gardens, and vote for their favorites. Participants’ home-growns could compete in one or all three of the ...
Hanging With Andy
I’d like to give a very special thank you to Christian Berman for capturing the days here with Andy and the whole crew.
It Takes a Village…
It Takes a Village to Create a Garden Before Andy Cao arrived at Cornerstone fresh off a Leob fellowship at Harvard, I wondered what to expect. Would he be some holier-than-thou Designer with a severe case of badassitude? And his design team: a coterie of crackpots from LA, impossibly trendy in head-to-toe black? I needn’t ...
Ice at Cornerstone
Cool New installation at Cornerstone Sonoma - Ice Cubes by Joseph McDonnell. Now in the Lilly Pond through September. “Joseph McDonnell is clearly a master of what might be called late modern sculpture – cubist/constructivist complexity and an expressionistic sense of drama… They [his sculptures] are about faith in the possibility of perfection in an ...
Gardeners at play
Gardeners at play on the west coast THE GREEN TOURIST: Christine McCabe From: The Australian July 23, 2011 12:00AM BAROSSA Valley old timers referred to their vineyards as gardens. In California’s Sonoma wine district the two have been brought together in an acclaimed centre blending wine, gardens, food and art. Located just 35 minutes by ...
Andy Cao in SF Chronicle
Andy Cao, Xavier Perrot at Cornerstone Gardens Lauren Reed-Guy, Chronicle Staff Writer – Wednesday, July 20, 2011 With chicken wire, cut crystal and an affinity for improvisation, landscape architects Andy Cao and Xavier Perrot are blurring the line between landscape design and art. This month, Cao and Perrot unveiled two new installations at Cornerstone Gardens ...
