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Place Maker Award Recipients

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2018 Place Maker Award
Max Blumberg and Eduardo Araújo

awards_placemaker_2018_pic1.jpgMax Blumberg, chairman of Blumberg Industries, an international lighting manufacturer, grew up surrounded by a formal garden and orchard on Long Island, where his mother Helen instilled in him a devotion to gardens and landscape.

Eduardo Araújo, a vice president at the same enterprise, owns and oversees the Brazilian fazenda where he was born and raised: a vast farming estate and arboretum granted to his family by King Pedro II of Portugal in 1690.

Max and Eduardo purchased High Court in Cornish, New Hampshire, in 1995. Sharing a passion for landscape gardening and an interest in arboriculture, they began bringing its historic but serenely forlorn garden to its current state of extraordinary beauty. High Court’s original owner, Annie Lazarus, had engaged prominent American Renaissance architect Charles A. Platt to create its original plan with its centerpiece a statue of the goddess Diana by renowned Beaux-Arts sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Platt’s first commission in this branch of the arts, High Court launched not only his subsequent career as a landscape designer but also that of Ellen Biddle Shipman, one of America’s first professional women to enter this field.

The restoration by Max and Eduardo of High Court, the nexus of a thriving artists colony between 1885 and World War I, represents a remarkable feat: resurrecting and renewing a great American garden with respect for its history, while not hesitating to enrich it with their own combined imaginations and horticultural talents.

2018 Place Maker Award
Max Blumberg and Eduardo Araújo 
Max Blumberg, chairman of Blumberg Industries, an international lighting manufacturer, grew up surrounded by a formal garden and orchard on Long Island, where his mother Helen instilled in him a devotion to gardens and landscape.
Eduardo Araújo, a vice president at the same enterprise, owns and oversees the Brazilian fazenda where he was born and raised: a vast farming estate and arboretum granted to his family by King Pedro II of Portugal in 1690.
Max and Eduardo purchased High Court in Cornish, New Hampshire, in 1995. Sharing a passion for landscape gardening and an interest in arboriculture, they began bringing its historic but serenely forlorn garden to its current state of extraordinary beauty. High Court’s original owner, Annie Lazarus, had engaged prominent American Renaissance architect Charles A. Platt to create its original plan with its centerpiece a statue of the goddess Diana by renowned Beaux-Arts sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Platt’s first commission in this branch of the arts, High Court launched not only his subsequent career as a landscape designer but also that of Ellen Biddle Shipman, one of America’s first professional women to enter this field. 
The restoration by Max and Eduardo of High Court, the nexus of a thriving artists colony between 1885 and World War I, represents a remarkable feat: resurrecting and renewing a great American garden with respect for its history, while not hesitating to enrich it with their own combined imaginations and horticultural talents.