ARCHITECT

Bartels-Pagliaro Architects (BPA)

Founded in 1974, BPA has built a reputation for creating award-winning, waterfront residences. Championing the concept of Conservation Clustered Development, the firm is particularly delighted to create a community within this uniquely attractive piece of land. Bartels-Pagliaro has designed a compact village image against a rural landscape. This reinforces the essence of community while minimizing the impact on the land – less clearing, cutting, and paving. Windermere’s Architecture flows with the land. BPA’s attention to place, space, light, scale and natural materials results in design unity with the environment and a Windermere lifestyle of warmth, comfort and integrity with the land. The firm has built numerous Arts & Crafts – inspired estates across Connecticut and the East Coast, as well as the Bear Mountain State Park merry go-round pavilion and Stonecrop Garden’s glass conservatory, both in New York.

The union of site and house makes a Bartels-Pagliaro structure not just a dwelling but a place at peace with itself.

www.bartels-pagliaro.com

LANDSCAPE MASTER PLAN

Simon Johnson

Simon Johnson is one of England’s foremost landscape and garden designers. Over the past 20 years, his work has included private gardens in the United Kingdom, southern Spain, and on the shores of the Baltic Sea. He has also worked extensively in the United States, from California to Maine, Chicago to Fort Worth. Simon has undertaken public commissions in the UK, working with English Heritage to create a garden for HM the Queen Mother at Walmer Castle in Kent, and with the Beaverbrook Foundation to restore Cherkley Court in Surrey. The gardens that Simon will create at Windermere will be an imaginative and contemporary reworking of the English Arts & Crafts idiom, using local materials and a range of plants suited to the climate and soil of New England.

INTERIORS

Karen Houghton

Karen Houghton Interiors has been providing clients with sophisticated design and livable homes that accommodate their family's needs and personalities for more than twenty years. Karen and her staff of designers work closely with their clients in a variety of styles to create interiors that are interesting and comfortable, as well as stylish and functional. Past projects have ranged in size from whole houses to much smaller assignments. Karen has been published in Architectural Digest, and in Chris Madden's Bedrooms and Living Rooms books, as well as many other publications.

Known for the creative and thoughtful use of fine textiles and furnishings, Karen Houghton Interiors is committed to the design principle that "a house must be right for its time, its place and the people who live in it." Inspired by Bartels-Pagliaro's brilliant architecture and the environmentally conscious development of the Windermere community.

www.karenhoughtoninteriors.com/

PLANNING AND ENGINEERING

Redniss & Mead, Inc.

Redniss & Mead, Inc., local land use specialists founded in 1957, provided planning, surveying, and engineering services for the project and led a team of professionals to help bring the vision of Windermere on the Lake to fruition. Redniss & Mead Inc. has long been a proponent of conservation oriented developments having drafted regulations in 1981 allowing for more flexible zoning to encourage the preservation of open spaces. The firm works on a wide array of projects with specific focus in southwestern Connecticut.

With the understanding that linking natural resource protection, land-use planning, and community character was critical to a successful project, Redniss & Mead, Inc. collaborated with: ecologists and wetland scientists from Environmental Planning Services; geologists from Leggette, Brashears, & Graham, Inc.; wastewater engineers from DYMAR Inc.; traffic engineers from Barkan and Mess; and others to create the infrastructure design for Windermere on the Lake.

www.redniss-mead.com/