The three sculptures sited so far have been carefully chosen to ft in with the natural landscape of woodland and meadow that still covers most of the property. Richard Long’s riverine, groundhugging slate creation meanders down a hillside. The closer one gets to Jaume Plensa’s trio of genderless, faceless agglomerations of stainless steel letters, the more transparent they seem, almost merging into the landscape behind them. The massive curving steel panels of the Richard Serra sculpture will gradually weather to a rich rusty brown that will be set ofbeautifully by the greenery around it.

Several gardens surround the renovated 1880 house, including a rill garden that runs down into the woods, with paths leading to a fountain and bench at the bottom. The swimming pool and surrounding area were also renovated. The pool area, provided with its own surrounding screen of shrubs and evergreen hedges, now features matching terraces on either end adorned with identical sets of furniture arranged in identical positions. Visitors can easily be fooled into thinking this is simply a refecting pool, another sculptural element in a garden where the focus is always on the art.