Madderlake Designs

The Boss

Back in the saddle again

Judd

Site protection is a necessity but making it beautiful just makes it amazingly satisfying.

We have been on the road it seems perpetually since April. Some business but a bit more exploration travel which had been long delayed and has been so good for us: Dublin, Manchester, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Iceland, Switzerland. This next trip brings us full circle — to aspen to@oversee tree planting and landscape install and then to Marfa for Chinati weekend and a break before ramping up again…

Working weekend on our Conundrum house project. Updates and a landscape finally.

Some days you just have to saddle up and pitch in to the get the job done.
Hitched up the water trailer to water all the trees and plants not yet in the ground on this hot afternoon in the Hudson Valley

And once more we are back in Aspen. Tree shopping for a old/new project. It’s been a few years but it’s nice to be back!

Le Mercerie last night
Woody Creek Tavern tonight!

Unveiling the Donald Judd dinner set in sterling silver. Designed by Judd in 1989 the pieces were never produced beyond prototypes. Puiforcat Paris has done a miraculous job realizing these, they are stunning and are a knockout presented tonight at Spring Street. Congratulations ! Also the Josef Hoffmann glassware is our favorite and simply the perfect pairing

West Coast today.
East Coast next week.
Love planting big trees.

Classic dahlia and tomatoes on the vine - all from the garden this morning. Sometimes he still does flowers!

This adorable, storybook pool house is nearly ready for an onslaught of kids and parties.

Putting the band back together for a new owner of our Conundrum House project. Big improvements are on the way!

Putting the band back together to revisit our Conundrum House project for new clients.

A favorite gate design of ours from many years ago. Reprising a version of it for the gardens around a storybook adorable pool house.

This very unusual specimen offered at the nursery. Our clients will love it! Until they don’t 🫣

An inspired choice, our client made for a guest cottage kitchen. We have the best clients!

Marfa
Took a train to a plane to an automobile

Our project on Long Island

Spring and mud season. Always the same every year. Plant scouting on Long Island.

Model A is running well.
The car I learned to drive in. Now what?

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“We thought a lot about the experience of living in a place like this, where you can see the art and the poetry in it, a space that feeds your mind and your spirit,” Pritchard says. “We are always trying to evolve, and finding that language and making it convincing is very hard. We hope this house embodies that idea.”

Oh “PURE WHITE”
you tease.

Thinking about color for a project. Yellow is calling.

Welcome back
Sarah Jessica is so good, kind and strong and this cover, wow 🤩

It’s such a pleasure to work with great craftspeople — who bring incredible abilities and skill and make our projects all that much better. Thank you .woodwork