Grandest Garden Tour of Southern California~Legendary Beverly Hills
Experience the Grandest Garden Tour of Southern California~Legendary Beverly Hills Garden Tour and Showcase Estate Friends of Robinson Gardens is gearing up for its annual Garden Tour on Saturday, May 20th, from 10AM to 4PM. This year’s theme, “Legendary Beverly Hills” will showcase four historic estates in Beverly Hills. Almost all of the estates have that golden era Hollywood connection. All are large properties so come prepared with comfy shoes and your best floral hat. Our bonus house for our VIP and Concierge guests is a majestic Beaux-Arts mansion on Sunset Boulevard with formal gardens, rose parterres, vegetable and herb gardens and manicured orange groves. The sensual aromas and striking architecture is a feast for the senses. Following the theme of Legendary Beverly Hills, The Kitchen for Exploring Foods is duplicating many of the famous dishes from famed Beverly Hills eateries of yesteryear – such as “The Beverly Hills Hotel” Mc Carthy…
Gardens of Eternity lecture by Dr. Linda Komaroff
Gardens of Eternity: Visualizing Paradise in Islamic Art Founder of Friends of Virginia Robinson Gardens Joan Selwyn introduced our speaker Dr. Linda Komaroff as “a very impressive lady.” A curator of Islamic art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for over 20 years, Linda has written many books, with an emphasis on the art of Iran. Under her direction, not only has the historic Islamic art collection doubled in size, but she has started the acquisition of a “world-class” collection of contemporary Middle Eastern art that is larger and more diverse than that of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Dr. Komaroff gave a fascinating and beautifully illustrated slide lecture on the notion of paradise in Islamic art, architecture and gardens. Alluding to Robinson Gardens as a lovely paradasical setting, she explained that in Islamic art, the garden is an important metaphor for paradise. Paradise is…