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Photography: Sean Hazen
28 / 08 / 2024
John Sharp's unique approach to landscape design creates divine gardens that inspire dreams, resembling accurate visual compositions. His fearless style and disruptive yet poetic spirit breathe life into any oasis, at the intersection of landscape design and the art of living.
John Sharp's work is a testament to his innovative and contemporary approach. He tells botanical stories and shapes sensory worlds, reinventing the outdoor spaces of historic houses designed by iconic architects and creating garden paradises for Hollywood celebrities.
John Sharp's studio practice is a testament to his unique design philosophy. It centres on the use of outdoor space, expanding the living space from indoors to outdoors, and encompasses a wide range of features from swimming pools to edible gardens.
The studio is guided by sustainability, integration with nature, organic textures and materials, and creating uniquely artistic environments.
Who is John Sharp?
A revolutionary in the landscape industry, John Sharp offers highly expressive landscape projects, creating never-before-seen worlds with botanical wonders in historic and famous houses. The designer spent several years developing his outdoor landscaping practice, expanding his art to gardens and the outdoors from an interior and spatial design background.
With an academic background in mixed media and sculpture and an early career in event production, curating, styling and collecting, John Sharp is a charismatic and enigmatic creative mind, driven by his deep love of the natural world, regenerative systems and poetic life. He founded Studio John Sharp in 2018, based in a bungalow in Venice Beach, California. The light-filled workspace overlooks the ocean and is decorated with an eclectic collection of contemporary art, modernist furniture, a fireplace, sculptural objects and, of course, plants.
Our approach to design is dynamic and lifestyle-focused, emphasising expressive, connective, natural and artful living. We are committed to creating expansive, wonder-filled experiences through personal, playful, and luxuriously designed environments.
Our creative process is client- and site-specific, pulling inspiration from both international travels and regional plant and material pallets/ traditions to create new narratives in the future.
Three Key Projects by John Sharp: The Landscape Eye for California’s Most Historic Homes
1) John Lautner’s Garcia House (in Hollywood Hills)
Inspiration: “Imagining the landscape through a retro-future sci-fi lens, home for the spaceship, home as a spaceship.”
2) Richard Neutra’s Hailey House (in Hollywood Hills)
Inspiration: Richard Neutra’s modernist architectural vision and the client’s desire to achieve a feeling of another world/oasis.
3) Gerald and Betty Ford Estate (in Rancho Mirage)
Inspiration: Betty Ford herself (the first lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977).
John Sharp's studio practice is a testament to his unique design philosophy. It centres on the use of outdoor space, expanding the living space from indoors to outdoors, and encompasses a wide range of features from swimming pools to edible gardens.
The studio is guided by sustainability, integration with nature, organic textures and materials, and creating uniquely artistic environments.
Who is John Sharp?
A revolutionary in the landscape industry, John Sharp offers highly expressive landscape projects, creating never-before-seen worlds with botanical wonders in historic and famous houses. The designer spent several years developing his outdoor landscaping practice, expanding his art to gardens and the outdoors from an interior and spatial design background.
With an academic background in mixed media and sculpture and an early career in event production, curating, styling and collecting, John Sharp is a charismatic and enigmatic creative mind, driven by his deep love of the natural world, regenerative systems and poetic life. He founded Studio John Sharp in 2018, based in a bungalow in Venice Beach, California. The light-filled workspace overlooks the ocean and is decorated with an eclectic collection of contemporary art, modernist furniture, a fireplace, sculptural objects and, of course, plants.
Our approach to design is dynamic and lifestyle-focused, emphasising expressive, connective, natural and artful living. We are committed to creating expansive, wonder-filled experiences through personal, playful, and luxuriously designed environments.
Our creative process is client- and site-specific, pulling inspiration from both international travels and regional plant and material pallets/ traditions to create new narratives in the future.
Three Key Projects by John Sharp: The Landscape Eye for California’s Most Historic Homes
1) John Lautner’s Garcia House (in Hollywood Hills)
Inspiration: “Imagining the landscape through a retro-future sci-fi lens, home for the spaceship, home as a spaceship.”
2) Richard Neutra’s Hailey House (in Hollywood Hills)
Inspiration: Richard Neutra’s modernist architectural vision and the client’s desire to achieve a feeling of another world/oasis.
3) Gerald and Betty Ford Estate (in Rancho Mirage)
Inspiration: Betty Ford herself (the first lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977).
For more information visit Studio John Sharp.
