A 'Backward' Glance Ahead
A ‘Backward’ Glance Ahead
It’s a new year, time for Morano to look back on the old one with pride as a reminder that the company keeps expanding. Morano Group, of course, continues to do the exterior work for which it is known, as seen in the manicured grounds of The St. Regis Residences in Rye, with its borders of arborvitaes and tall grasses, geometric patterns of flowering shrubs and pops of trees, including Japanese maples.
At Greenwich Country Day School, trees buttress the homey campus.
But little compares to an imposing brick mansion, also in Greenwich, for which Morano has created an equally majestic landscape with an ivy-covered arch, an S-patterned border for a lawn with a central fountain, various outdoor sitting areas, a sweeping paved drive, a pool and even a medieval-style relief. (Not surprisingly, the house was featured in Architectural Digest.)
Still, Val Morano Sagliocco, the man behind Morano Group, is always one to dream big, and that means New York City. For The Assemblage on John Street, an apartment-style hotel in Manhattan’s Financial District, he’s creating a walk-through arcade covered in plants, wall gardens remaining a big trend; and chandeliers of plants for other spaces, along with potted and hanging plants and cactus dividers.
The Assemblage Park Avenue has unique yet tranquil birch wood walls and dripping parasols of greenery, while the plants and spare furnishings for The Assemblage NoMad’s rooftop garden will create a Zen intimacy in the bustling city.
And the trees that will dot Panorama Brooklyn, an office and retail complex, will bring Brooklyn Heights to well, new heights.
February 2020
By Georgette Gouveia