Griffith & Cletta


Tom should've proposed here*
We've danced all around the work of Jay Griffith on Land+Living, but we've never dedicated a post to his firm's work. We've featured the work of his former partner Rob Steiner, the garden of his current partner Russ Cletta and we linked to an article in the LA Times Magazine that featured his design for a residence in Rustic Canyon. But for some strange reason, we have never come across Jay's website before. Well, today we did, and we want to share it with you.

Jay Griffith's work is fit for a Hollywood movie, his landscapes are dressed sets in the best sense. So it is only fitting that many of his clients are Hollywood types as well. Jay's firms have always produced stunning visual compositions of color, material and space that unfold in carefully scripted sequence.

Firm: Griffith & Cletta

We like the firm's philosophy of reuse and climatically correct design. Their projects try to recycle existing landscape and hardscape materials on site (such as recycled concrete, see 3rd photo below). They also use plants that are native to the project region in their plans along with appropriate species from similar regions around the world.

* in case you didn't get it

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"The OracLe"
Posted by Marian Peris on 8/7/2006 12:34:00 PM

I have known the work of Jay Griffith for some 30 years. He is pretty wonderful.
In the last picture shown here, if you are standing on the concrete and facing toward the camera, you see a 270 degree, unobstructed view of the Pacific Ocean. Pretty cool, huh? I named the hill top there, " The Oracle." One of my favorite places.
Marian Peris
San Francisco, California

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Simpson Lab
Posted by Steve on 5/28/2008 12:00:00 PM

Marian Peris, where are you now?

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