Landscape architect Perry Guillot’s idol is not a garden giant of the past but rather an American minimalist sculptor. “Fred Sandback’s work is the all-time greatest example of accomplishing so much by doing so little,” explains Guillot, whose sweeping swards for fashion’s Tory Burch and style gurus Delphine and Reed Krakoff possess a similarly powerful restraint. Guillot shapes properties in poetic fashion, subtly blending heroic sight lines and vanishing points with swelling hills, artfully clumped trees, bands of boxwood, and frothing fescue grass. Small wonder that when AD asked Guillot about the earthly paradises that continually inspire him, he cited Central Park’s Sheep Meadow, an engineering feat that looks utterly natural. ► Southampton, New York; perryguillotincom
