The gardens at historic Villa Artemis on Thursday night won the third-annual Lesly S. Smith Landscape Award, given by the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach.
Nievera Williams Design created the extensive landscaping as part of a recent and extensive renovation undertaken at the North End estate. The oceanfront Villa Artemis, at 656 N. Ocean Blvd., was completed in 1917 for the Guest family and has been owned for several decades by members of the Rosenthal family.
Landscape architect Mario Nievera and his business partner Keith Williams collaborated on the landscape design, which respects the estate’s original understated grandeur but emphasizes updated plant choices, Nievera said.
Michael and Jane Rosenthal Horvitz live in the estate’s main house, while her sister, Cynthia Rosenthal Boardman, occupies the newly built guesthouse.
Boardman, Nievera and Williams attended the award presentation during a Preservationist Club dinner at the foundation’s headquarters on Peruvian Avenue. The Horvitzes were unable to attend.
— DARRELL HOFHEINZ
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