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American Pastoral.(Miranda Brooks)

Vogue

| September 01, 2008 | Macsweeney, Eve | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Eve MacSweeney. Photographed by Eric Boman

Landscape architect Miranda Brooks has brought her signature mix of formality and romance to a lush Long Island estate.

You can tell that landscape architect Miranda Brooks is a visionary by the way she paces a garden she is working on, long legs striding, long hair flowing, a faraway look in her eye. Grasping the big picture and then executing it with lavish attention to detail is a skill that has earned her an impressive list of international clients, including assorted Rothschilds and Guinnesses, Ron Perelman, and numerous others too grand to be named. Annette de la Renta advises people "to do ...

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