Earlier this month, viewers enjoyed manicured lawns, multicolored garden spaces and internationally sourced antiques inside Music City Center at the Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville.
Now, for the first time in the show’s 24-year history, the Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville has presented several designers with the Garden Awards.
The awards honor the local designers who created the gardens at this year’s show: Anne Daigh, Phillipe Chadwick, Todd Breyer, Josiah Lockard and design teams from Poise Ivy and Cheekwood Botanical Gardens.
From contemporary designs with clean lines and modern pieces to fanciful outdoor rooms with glass table waterfalls and twinkling lights, the designers offered various perspectives on interior design and landscape architecture during the three-day event.
Kathi Gilleland and Brian Gilleland of Poise Ivy took home the Outdoor Living Award as well as the People’s Choice Award with their garden, which had a garden-to-table theme. The pair combined three distinct rooms: a growing room, a cooking area and a space to entertain and eat, staged with bottles of wine and centerpieces.
Kathi Gilleland described her take on gardening and design, saying, “A garden is the purest form of joy, nourishing the soul and body, and inspiring one to live simply, live healthy … live well.”
Landscape architect Anne Daigh earned the Bryant Fleming Award for Best of Show with slick design elements, blending horticulture and ingenuity.
“We created The Modern Scalene. In this garden, the juxtaposition of modern, streamlined shapes and forms against soft, weathered and whimsical elements work together to create an alluring destination of peace, harmony and balance,” Daigh said.
Cheekwood is a beneficiary of the show, so its garden was for exhibition only and was not eligible for awards.
Since its founding, the Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville has raised $5.5 million for Cheekwood, as well as many Nashville charities supported by the Economic Club of Nashville, such as Big Brothers of Nashville, Fannie Mae Battle Home for Children, Martha O’Bryan Center, the W.O. Smith Music School and the YWCA of Nashville.
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