From Fernando Caruncho’s desk, he looks out across dusty wheat fields to the mountains north of Madrid that were once painted by Velázquez. Framed by the double doors of the “kiosk”—a small pavilion where the landscape designer and his team meet to discuss projects from Florida to New Zealand—is a perspective typical of Caruncho’s work over the past 40 years: restrained, sober gardens merging seamlessly with the landscape and the vast changing sky of the Sierra de Guadarrama. When he came to the site 20 years ago, it was this view that informed the design of the studio and its gardens—the “point of gravity, ” as he describes it, around which the square, cream-colored buildings and the immaculate rows of boxwood and laurel were arranged. Now 62, Caruncho oversees a team of 12 that includes his sons, Pedro and Fernando. They work in the kiosk and an office where the firm’s global operations are coordinated. Between these spaces This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Two Buy Now Related Stories Design Issue 51 John Pawson From the king of minimalism: “I find the essential and get the design down to a point where you can’t add or subtract from it.” Design Interiors Issue 51 Axel Vervoordt Inside the world of Axel Vervoordt. Design Issue 51 Inga Sempé “Minimalism is boring as hell, and on top of that, it’s preachy.” Design Issue 51 Halleroed Meet the giants of Swedish retail design. Design Issue 51 Andrew Trotter The architect and designer on renewing traditional architecture. Design Issue 51 Kim Lenschow The architect who wants to show you how your house works.
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