Modern-rustic dining patio at Texas French Bread
All you really need for a garden, as Phoenix landscape architect Steve Martino says, are a tree, a chair, a wall, and a little water. The rustic-modern patio at Texas French Bread reminded me of this when I stopped by for lunch yesterday. Designed by Christy Ten Eyck, the patio’s clean-lined, semi-industrial design — rusty steel pipe and board-formed concrete predominate — shows the power of a shade structure (there are trees also), simple seating, low defining walls, and a bubbling trough fountain to create an inviting outdoor space.… Read More
