waterfall landscape design
waterfall landscape design
waterfall landscape design
waterfall landscape design

Steamboat Springs landscape recognized by Luxe

A mountain landscape I designed in Steamboat Springs, Colorado is featured in a 16-page article in Luxe Magazine. Luxe’s niche is the very high end “luxury” residential architecture and design. This article, “Natural Order”, shows the landscape design, the home architecture, the artwork and the furniture all combining synergistically to create the special ambiance of the home.

In the article, the homeowner comments, “The landscape that Tom created is extraordinary, and it continues to age like a fine wine.” This is, of course, my goal with every landscape and garden I design: to create a living landscape that becomes more beautiful as it grows and matures.

Here is the PDF file of the entire 16-page Luxe article (with best resolution), and this jpeg will give you a 2-page taste of it.

Altgelt & Associates' Boulder Landscape Honored in Luxe Magazine

Luxe Magazine, which focuses on luxury residential architecture and design, recently featured some of my landscape design work with water features in their “Style Makers” section. This landscape design is located in the Lake of the Pines gated community just North of Boulder, Colorado. Here is a quote from this article:

For Altgelt & Associates’ Thomas Altgelt, co-creating with nature remains as important as understanding the soul and spirit of nature itself and the manifestation of that spirit in water. “We generally think of water as chaotic, but it is actually tremendously sensitive,” he says. Although Altgelt has realized his special brand of design in many European projects, it’s the mutually collective creative process at his small, Boulder-based firm that produces his most harmonious work. Altgelt and his team breathe passion into the natural integrity of the landscape in accordance with the archetype of each garden, while incorporating the clients’ needs and ideals. Says Altgelt, “It’s not only sensitizing our clients to their own wishes and desires, but bringing those needs into harmony with the piece of land that has attracted them.” It’s through this unique collaboration that Altgelt succeeds in truly rethinking water as the element of life.

To see Luxe’s professional photography of my work, as well as a brief interview with me, here is the Luxe Style Makers article in PDF format (best resolution). Here it is in jpeg format.

Breathe in the Garden

"Breathe in the Garden" Landscape Design

"Breathe in the Garden" Landscape Design

This garden in Boulder, Colorado features a vanishing-edge pool with water for swimming adjacent to a naturalistic rock and water feature for plants and fish. There is a series of waterfalls forming a drop cascade of at least nine feet from the master bedroom down to the swimming and entertainment terrace. The terrace has an outdoor kitchen and dining room with views of the Boulder Flatirons. Looking from the dining patio, the swimming pool visually melds with the Boulder Reservoir; you cannot see where one stops and the other begins. A path decends along the water cascade to a quiet intimate viewing patio of both the garden and the grandeur of the Boulder Flatirons. A firepit is perched on the edge of the dining and entertainment patio.