These collectors of artifacts from the time of the Prairie School of architecture, from Louis Sullivan to Frank Lloyd Wright, required creation of outside spaces to complement both their historic preferences, the related character of their house, and the unresolved problems of their site.
    Using the "hammerbeam" vocabulary of that time, woven into an intricate organization of planes, the design integrated a mode of composition that is at once modern and classical in organization, but "natural" in materials as well as made by hand: all of which are characteristics of the Prairie School.
    The "capitals" of each multi-stick column contain a small volume for a cobalt-colored light that adds an ethereal quality to the outdoors at night.

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