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People Nancy Power Carolyn Bennett Joni Feldman Howard Formby Joanna Hankamer Linda Jassim Marcia Lee Dragan Mrdja Elisa Read Chris Sherwin Joe Sturges Nancy Power nancy@nancypower.com Famed historian Kevin Starr once remarked that Nancy Power is to landscape what Frank Gehry is to architecture. In his book “Coast of Dreams” he describes her style as ‘Eclectic boldness’. Her blend of cultural and landscape palettes, her painter’s eye, and design statement blending human use and comfort, using water, stone, appropriate plantings, color, and light place her as one of the great landscape designers working in the nation today: as evidenced by the 1999 Henry Francis du Pont Medal in landscape architecture and the 2005 House Beautiful Giants of Design Award. Ms. Power is also the author of the classic “The Gardens of California: Four Centuries of Design from Mission to Modern” published by Hennessey and Ingalls. Nancy Goslee Power & Associates has designed and built landscapes that range in scale from over 100 acre Master Plans, densely urban sites and substantial estates to intimate gardens. The work is designed with a keen awareness of how people use space, creating a unique and visually striking environment where people can enjoy living and working. Nancy Power is Chairman of the Board for the Garden School Foundation, whose purpose is to put a working garden and kitchen classroom in every public school in Los Angeles. The Garden School has recently partnered with the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley, California founded by Alice Waters and the Chez Panisse Foundation. Nancy hopes to build the first Edible Schoolyard at the 24th Street School in Los Angeles. Ms. Power is a trustee of the Santa Monica Museum of Art and she is currently working on her monograph, Power in the Garden.