The Contemplative Balcony
With visual harmony at its core, the Contemplative style suggests a landscape in miniature. Symbolic representation of mountains, forests and oceans provides sensory calmness and emotional quietude.
This style embraces seemingly contradictory qualities of subtlety and boldness, delicacy and vitality, and balance and asymmetry. The Contemplative style embodies a dynamic fusion of tradition and innovation while celebrating nature and art and emphasizing the beauty of rusticity.
Natural elements such as stone and wood are enhanced with clipped flowering shrubs and Japanese maple. Gravel is raked into curvilinear lines representing water and streams, boulders represent mountainscapes. These elements combined with a variety of mosses ferns bamboo and ornamental grasses, create a contemplative mood.
