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Suzanne Cammerano is a freelance landscape designer with 15 years of varied experience in horticulture. She has been a professional gardener for Somerset County Parks Commission as well as private clients, a volunteer for a nonprofit community gardens program in Trenton, a designer?s assistant, and has worked in landscape sales/design/build for local nurseries. This blog takes a light and friendly approach to gardening, with a focus on helping local readers identify and find great plants and accessories, public gardens and garden events, and improve their landscapes with timely tips and hints.
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Junior League of Greater Princeton Announces Designer Showhouse 2017
PRINCETON, NJ—November 1, 2016— The Junior League of Greater Princeton (JLGP) is pleased to announce the highly anticipated return of the 19th Designer Showhouse & Gardens held at 75 Cleveland Lane, Princeton. The home will be open for public tours on Sunday, April 30th. The event continues Thursday-Sundays through May 27 from 11am-4pm. Additionally, the Showhouse will serve as a splendid and unique venue for lectures, luncheons and special events. Proceeds from this biennial fundraiser support the Junior League’s mission and are reinvested back into the community via programs that benefit local women’s and children's initiatives, grants to area community organizations and scholarships for female high school seniors who have demonstrated a strong commitment to community service and voluntarism. The Showhouse event also serves to raise awareness about the rewarding opportunities and valuable leadership training the JLGP provides its volunteer members.
Since 1974, the JLGP has produced eighteen Designer Showhouses, showcased more than 500 curated spaces inspiring tens of thousands of home and garden design enthusiasts, invested thousands of volunteer hours and raised nearly $2 million dollars. The JLGP and the exceptional vision of renowned luxury home builder, Jay Grant of Grant Homes, have united to create the ultimate Designer Showhouse experience in 2017. Joining them on this winning ticket is internationally celebrated cabinetry designer and craftsman, Christopher Peacock, who will install his classic British cabinetry to the Showhouse kitchen, a must-see highlight of the Showhouse tour.
75 Cleveland Lane is well-known by Princeton insiders and art aficionados alike as a creative hive. The impressive stone house was once home to J. Seward Johnson Jr, sculptor and founder of Grounds for Sculpture and his first wife, Barbara “Kristina” Johnson, a student turned fashion model turned one of America’s Top 100 Collectors of Art and Antiques (1986-1996). After their highly publicized divorce in 1964, Kristina Johnson, along with her daughter Jeniah “Kookie” Johnson, remained in the house up until her death in 2013. Her passion for the arts influenced the transformation of her manse into part home and part museum housing her immense and eclectic collection of fine, folk, ceramic and ethnographic arts.
Fast forward to today, contractors, craftsman and carpenters—all artists in their own right—are buzzing inside the hive rebuilding the house inside the stone hull at the direction of Jay Grant, who purchased the property from Kookie Johnson in December of 2015. The view of 75 Cleveland Lane has always invited curiosity—the front of the house positioned away from the street. Passersby have only been allowed to see the back of the house enclosed by a stone wall with a custom wrought iron gate, a sideview of the carriage house, a hint of courtyard and a smattering of whimsical sculptures dotting the grounds. Grant’s plan transfigures the front of the house to face Cleveland Lane, lifting the veil and opening the new front door to Showhouse guests. Tours will include the three floors of the main house featuring 5 BR, 5 BA, 2 powder rooms and 4 fireplaces, the carriage house which boasts a 5 bay-garage and 1 BR apartment and the estate’s gardens and grounds. The carriage house bays will house the Showhouse cafe and boutique.
The Junior League is seeking talented, innovative and creative interior and landscape designers to join them in making this Designer Showhouse a success in raising critical funds for the JLGP and its community projects in the Greater Princeton area. A Designer’s Open House will be held on site on November 16th and 17th from 9am to 1pm for interested interior and landscape designers. Designers planning to attend the open house must register online at https://www.jlgp.org/showhouse/ by November 14th to reserve their spot. Space is limited.
The Junior League of Greater Princeton is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. The Junior League of Greater Princeton focuses its efforts on the needs of women and children in Mercer and Bucks counties as well as the surrounding areas. Women over the age of 21, committed to voluntarism, regardless of race, religion or national origin are welcome as members. The Junior League of Greater Princeton is part of the Association of Junior Leagues International, which includes 293 Junior Leagues in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Great Britain. For more information please visit www.jlgp.org.
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