When L.A.’s cultural institutions need a green makeover, they often turn to horticultural powerhouse Nancy Goslee Power. The landscape designer, known for her bold and eclectic style, has worked over some of L.A.’s most-preened locations—from the sculpture garden at the Norton Simon Museum (“The attendance doubled after the new garden was opened”) to the Music Center and Greystone Mansion. This fall, in addition to a courtyard park for the Montage Beverly Hills hotel, she completed a green space for architect Michael Maltzan’s new Skid Row-adjacent building for kids’ nonprofit Inner-City Arts. Goslee Power—whose Garden School Foundation’s goal is to create a working garden at every public school in L.A.—also hosts a design lecture series out of her Westside studio. “Our landscape has been mostly covered with cement and asphalt and is slowly becoming unpaved and restored. It’s my mission to build Nancy Goslee Powers’ garden at the new Inner-City Arts campus. sanctuaries where one can reconnect with nature.”
