In chef Alice Waters s house in Berkeley California a small table has a view out to her edible garden This is where Alice likes to start her day with...
Photography by Leslie Williamson.
...a cup of tea and some reading writes the photographer Leslie Williamson who visited the Chez Panisse founder and a dozen other eminent Californians at home for her new book
In addition to Waters’s wild tumble of backyard roses and raspberry bushes, Williamson offers us an intimate tour of the poet Robinson Jeffers’s coastal cottage in Carmel; architect Donlyn Lyndon’s favorite windswept trails at the Sea Ranch, and artist Alma Allen’s desert studio, at the end of a dirt road.
The perfect paint color to complement the wild purple and plum color palette in Alice Waters’s garden?
The garden was designed to accommodate the needs of a mature redwood tree (its trunk is visible at left).
On her most recent visit, Williamson found Waters working at home and photographed the garden and interiors of the house during a day of “meetings, phone calls, visitors, and more,” she writes.
A riot of purple morning glories are in their glory and nasturtiums take up the call at the edge of a winding path in a corner of Alice Waters’s backyard garden.
Still life with bird bath; nasturtiums, Alpine strawberries, and rose bushes all bridge the gap between ornamental and edible plants.
A brick path is bordered by clumps of exuberant Japanese anemones.
Alice Waters looks out onto her garden in Berkeley, California. It’s a challenge she met admirably.
A hardcover copy of Interior Portraits: At Home with Cultural Pioneers and Creative Mavericks (Rizzoli) is $34.43 from Amazon.