Artful Travels: The Frazier Conservatory
Thank you to Mouty Shackelford and Artsy Scoop Magazine for the cover feature! We had a great time providing a tour of the Frazier Conservatory project.
Excerpt from the article below:
“My goal was to make it feel as though it had always been here,” says Garnett. “When you’re working with land this beautiful, you don’t want to overpower it. You want the buildings to feel delicate, like they belong.”
The site, a former family farm, includes a 50-acre lake and pastures that have been lovingly preserved for generations. Garnett oriented the buildings to follow the land’s natural contours, letting the lake guide his design. “We discovered that part of the site was in a flood zone,” he explains. “That dictated how the structures rotated and where they sat. In the end, it actually gave us the perfect buffer between the architecture and the water.”
Each building, which include the main lodge, guest casitas, and outdoor pavilions, is crafted from materials sourced close to home: locally quarried Texas stone, board-formed concrete, and white stucco that gleams against the fields. The interiors are equally grounded, with polished concrete floors embedded with fossils and soft, filtered light that moves across the rooms throughout the day. “You can literally see time in the floor,” Garnett says with a smile. “It connects you to the history of the land.”
Read more here: Artsy Scoop (November Issue)