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Kingwood, TX (PRWEB) September 17, 2014

Matt Griffin, owner of Prime Lawn/ IE Design Group Inc., has successfully completed the qualification process to become a Professional Certified Aquascape Contractor (PCAC). Certified Aquascape Contractors undergo years of training to gain their certification in this new technology in the water gardening industry. PCACs are trained and educated to install beautiful, low-maintenance water features, and provide quality workmanship, outstanding customer service, and knowledgeable assistance to their customers.

Matt Griffin has demonstrated his ability to install professional, natural-looking water features while providing excellence in service to his customers, said Jeffrey Payton, vice president of business development for Aquascape. Were proud to have Matt on board as a Professional Certified Aquascape Contractor.

Matt Griffins passion for water and landscape design started at a young age. From the time he was ten years old, Matt started a landscape business, quickly moving past mowing lawns as he envisioned designs for his neighbors yards. He went on to major in Horticulture at Texas Tech and established Prime Lawn/IE Design Group in 1994. I guess you could say that I was born with a passion and a green thumb, states Matt. I have an instinct for the ability to look at a yard like a blank canvas and then start creating a design that becomes a natural environment for that property.

Matt uses quality-grade professional products manufactured by Aquascape. As a Professional Certified Aquascape Contractor, he is able to provide the best in service and products for ecosystem ponds, Pondless Waterfalls, and decorative fountains. Says Matt, Its an honor to be the only Aquascape Certified contractor in the state of Texas and to be among only 29 other certified contractor in the country.

For information on Prime Lawn/ IE Design Group Inc. and its water feature services, visit http://www.primelawn.com or call (281-361-7858).

About Prime Lawn: Prime Lawn is dedicated to designing and building your own personal sanctuary at home. Our professionals have the experience and expertise to develop your vision into a functional and inviting recreational or relaxation area.

We provide the highest quality products, customer service and maintenance to all of our clients, no matter how large or small the project. We are family owned and operated, ensuring the highest degree of integrity and attention to client relationships. Your finished project serves as our business card, so we always want to make sure you are completely satisfied, to the last detail. We developed both residential and commercial projects from inception to installation. Allow us to access your project, budget and property for a complete analysis of your needs. we would love to develop your vision into a reality!

It will be our pleasure to help you with any of your Landscape Design, Hardscaping Design, Water Features, Irrigation & Drainage, Mosquito Systems, Landscape Lighting, and Eco-Friendly products for all of your residential and commercial needs including patios, outdoor kitchens and more.

About Aquascape: Aquascape is North Americas leading innovator in the water gardening industry. Aquascape invented the low-maintenance, naturally balanced ecosystem pond that is the # 1 contractor-installed water garden. The St. Charles, Illinois headquarters, dubbed Aqualand, received Silver Level recognition in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating system. Aquascapes mission is to help our customers succeed at building, selling, and retailing water garden products. Aquascape and its vast network of Authorized AquascapePRO Distributors sell exclusively to contractors and retailers. Founded in 1991, Aquascape made the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies four years in a row. In 2005, founder and CEO Greg Wittstock was named one of Americas Best Bosses by FORTUNE Small Business Magazine and Winning Workplaces. http://www.aquascapeinc.com

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Architectural commissioners on Friday will review plans for the custom house that seasonal Palm Beach businessman Peter Wood has commissioned to replace the one where Buffett and his wife, Jane, lived for years.

The Buffets sold the 1920s-era house at 540 S. Ocean Blvd. in 2010 to billionaire philanthropist Jon Stryker, who in turn, passed it on to Wood for a recorded $22.9 million last May. Wood wants to replace that house with a two-story Palladian-style residence featuring a partial basement and a two-story guesthouse. Harold Smith of Smith and Moore Architects executed the design. The propertys address, by the way, has been changed to 101 Via Marina, reflecting the name of the side street alongside the 1.6-acre lot.

The Estate Section property changed hands simultaneously with two others three months ago in a 2.6-acre deal that saw Corcoran Groups Paulette Koch and Dana Koch as the listing agents. Broker John O. Pickett III was on the buyers side of the negotiating table. Companies controlled by Englishman Wood and his business partner, British homebuilder Ken Parker, bought the three properties.

Under the auspices of Royalton U.S. Holdings, theyre planning a new spec house for the other oceanfront lot at 530 S. Ocean Blvd. Details havent yet been released.

Meanwhile, Pickett reports that an off-the-market sale is pending for a third property Tre Fontaine, the landmarked 1924 house at 61 Middle Road that Stryker restored and used as his personal residence. It was designed by society architect Marion Sims Wyeth, who lived there for 15 years. Stryker sold it and the vacant lot at 530 S. Ocean Blvd. for a combined $20 million.

Pickett had planned to list Tre Fontaine for sale, but he never got the chance. The house went under contract within a week after the big sale closed in May. Brown Harris Stevens agent Ben Stein brought the unidentified buyer to the negotiating table. No word yet on the amount that will change hands or when the sale will close.

Buffet fans, by the way, can still drive by the North End house he and his wife bought in late 2011 on Garden Road as well as properties he owns on Root Trail.

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And speaking of Jimmy Buffett The mayor of Margaritaville himself is featured in the Corcoran Groups new national Live Who You Are ad campaign. Celebrity lenser Annie Leibovitz photographed a barefoot Buffett at one of his Palm Beach homes, standing next to a vintage car in a yard that looks straight out of Key West.

Noted landscape architect Mario Nievera whose work can be a selling point in local real estate listings also is part of the campaign. Liebowitz photographed the principal of Nievera William Design partially submerged in a lushly landscaped swimming pool.

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Nature became art, and art intertwined with nature, during Still Point, a magical landscape and performance experience last Friday and Sunday. The public was invited to witness the unique installation/performance on a serenely beautiful property in West Tisbury during two guided tours. Still Point, an art and nature experiencewas a collaboration between landscape artist and patron of the arts Claudia Miller, whose thoughtfully laid out West Tisbury acreage provided the site, and director/choreographer Wendy Taucher of New York and Marthas Vineyard. The two women have been working on the piece from conception to selection of material and casting to logistics for the past two years.

On Friday afternoon, a group of about 50 people gathered in a large barn and its adjoining veranda. They chatted while waiting not quite sure what to expect for the adventure to begin. Then, after a brief introduction, the audience was split into four groups and shuffled off in four different directions.

The weather was perfect. A warm, bright, Indian summer day. Following an all-but-silent guide, the guests walked along winding paths, first skirting a pumpkin patch, then passing from open field to canopies of trees where the sun created a dappled surface on the path.

There were pleasant surprises, both planned and fortuitous, to be discovered along the way. A beautiful rock sculpture by Dave Brown, a feat of both engineering and aesthetic vision, was on display just off the path. A pond lay behind a scrim of foliage. A formation of geese flew overhead, causing the walkers to look upward. Then, shifting their focus back earthbound, they were greeted by a serene Buddha sculpture sitting unobtrusively on a large rock to the side of the path.

Eastern deities popped up often along the way, perched in trees or on rocks, festooned tastefully with sunflowers and feathers. A copse of starkly white, branchless tree trunks presented itself as an organic sculpture garden.

After a lengthy walk, the visitors arrived at a semi-clearing for the first of four 10-minute performances. A group of six opera singers, both men and women in orange ombrerobes and tunics, surrounded an incongruously placed piano. Strolling through the trees, gazing off contemplatively in different directions, the group filled the woods with otherworldly music. The piece they performed was an arrangement by Ms. Taucher and pianist Dror Baitel, based on J.S. Bachs Goldberg Variations. The singers, like all the other participants, were accomplished professionals recruited from Ms. Tauchers company of New York City singers, actors, and dancers.

While one group of visitors was immersed in this nature and art experience, the others were playing witness to three disparate performances. Then each group moved on to the next prearranged location. Each piece was created specifically for its particular site.

At a clearing surrounded by Tibetan flags and a large Buddha meditating next to a sea-washed driftwood tree, a solo dancer interacted with a row of inverted stumps, her movements and poses emulating, or responding to, the twisting root formations.

From atop a log bench, actor Donovan Dietz gave a powerful dramatic reading of a poem which combined a work by T.S. Eliot with poetry by West Tisbury Poet Laureate Justen Ahren. An excerpt from Eliots Four Quartetsreferred to as The Still Point of the Turning World was the inspiration for Mr. Ahrens contribution.

At another clearing, a quartet of singers stood arranged around and atop a large flat rock. Unaccompanied, they harmonized beautifully on a chanting arrangement of four of Bachs chorales. Chirruping insects filled in the pauses. The piece, intentionally nonverbal, had mystical and spiritual overtones.

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TOWNSEND -- In honor of October bring Massachusetts Archaeology month, the Townsend Historical Society will host "A Village Hooped in Steel: A Walking Tour of Fessenden Hill," on Sunday, Oct. 12, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Rain date is Oct. 19, same time and place.

The tour will start at the New Hampshire end of Fessenden Hill Road and will explore one of Townsend's forgotten neighborhoods, where cellar holes, the landscape and research into the records illuminate part of the town's past.

Architectural historian Ryan Hayward of The Preservation Collaborative Inc., of Medford, will lead a 90-minute excursion through the northern portion of Fessenden Hill Road. Guests will be in for a treat, enjoying a leisurely, in-depth tour of the remnants of life and work along the road. It offers a rare opportunity to learn about the stories less heard of the people who once called it home and how Townsend State Forest came into being.

All are welcome. The cost is $10, but free for Townsend Historical Society members. For more information, call 978-597-2106, or visit http://www.preservationcollaborative.com.

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In TODAYs new original series, At Home with TODAY, the morning crew gets personal by sharing their favorite spots in their own homes.

To kick things off, Natalie Morales is opening the door to her Hoboken, New Jersey townhouse and welcoming you to her favorite room in the historic brownstone her kitchen.

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Its the heart of any home, Morales says of the kitchen, and her family certainly uses the room to do more than just cook meals. From the kids using the table to do their homework to whenever we have friends over, we always just gravitate toward our kitchen.

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 17, 2014

Respected architect, interior designer and educator Annie Chu, IIDA, AIA will receive the International Interior Design Associations Leadership Award of Excellence from IIDAs Southern California chapter during its annual Leaders Breakfast at the Hyatt Regency LA Downtown on Sept. 19.

A founding principal of CHU+GOODING Architects and currently a faculty member at Woodbury Universitys School of Architecture Chu elevates interior architecture as an essential, poetic and critical component of integrated practice through the design of distinguished buildings and interiors, teaching, and civic and professional leadership, according to the IIDA website.

I can think of no one more deserving of this recognition than Annie Chu, said Norman Millar, AIA, Dean of Woodburys School of Architecture. Her body of professional design work, her teaching, writing and public speaking reflect her resolute voice for interior architecture and design as an essential change agent for communities. Woodbury is extremely fortunate to have her on our faculty during this very creative and productive time in her career.

It is such an honor to be recognized by ones peers for pursuing ones passions, exercising ones talents, and recognizing that extraordinary things can happen when communities come together, Chu said. I am so privileged to be surrounded by colleagues from across the design community who constantly inspire me to think about our world in new and different ways.

Chu served as a Cultural Affairs Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles from 2010 to 2013, focusing on the re-launch of the Mayors Design Advisory Panel and public art initiatives that elevate the quality of public art and the built environment within Los Angeles. Her recent design work includes exhibit design for the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Hammer Museum; the LA County + USC Wellness Center; La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, a Mexican cultural center in downtown Los Angeles; a new headquarters for Southern California Public Radio (KPCC 89.3) in Pasadena; and the Culver Center of the Arts at the UC Riverside ArtsBlock in downtown Riverside, Calif.

Award-winning projects include a major renovation and addition to the 1950 Harwell Hamilton Harris masterpiece English House, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association's office interior at Disney Hall, the interior renovation of a new home for the Kentucky Museum of Art + Design in Louisville, the Architecture of R. M Schindler exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and a material intensive experimental showcase for NeoCon West.

A native of Hong Kong, Chu received a bachelor of architecture degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture and earned a masters in architecture and building design from Columbia University. As a recipient of the prestigious Skidmore Owings Merrill Traveling Fellowship, Chu toured Mayan and Incan architecture in Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala and Peru before beginning an architectural practice that included 12 years with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects in New York and Franklin D. Israel in Beverly Hills.

In addition to Woodbury University, where she currently teaches interior architecture, Chu has taught at the New York Institute of Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, University of Texas at Austin, UCLA, SCI-Arc, Art Center College of Design, Arizona State University and USC. She also has served the greater architecture community as 2009 Chair of the AIA California Council Design Awards Committee and as 2010 Chair of the National AIA Interior Architecture Committee. She contributes to professional publications and serves on the editorial board of Contract magazine.

Visit the Southern California IIDA chapter's website for more information about the organization and the annual Leadership Award event.

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