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KIM’S FIVE FAVOURITE WELLNESS SPACES IN VICTORIA
Red Sand Garden at Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne
Inner Studio, Collingwood
Inside a refitted warehouse in a side street in Collingwood, Inner Studio features a simple palette of corrugated iron, concrete and timber. The plantscaping is the hero of Inner Studio’s interior, as is the extra large sauna that can fit a whole sports team, posse of friends or business crew. Inner Studio was developed by Will Slade and Ben Sinclair in collaboration wtih Clea Creagan from Miniscapes and Andrew Laidlaw.
Not all wellness requires fancy spa therapies with fabulous interiors. There are many exterior “garden rooms” that can also provide the restorative healing one finds at wellness facilities with carefully curated and considered landscape design.
The Cranbourne Botanical Gardens are a case in point, where the Red Sand Garden, designed by landscape architects Taylor Cullity Lethlean in association with plant designer Paul Thompson, provides a sensory and aesthetic antidote to the busy visual density of city life. An artistic representation of Australia’s desert centre, this garden feels almost otherworldly in its colour, form and sense of spaciousness, inviting you to slow down, exhale and notice the patterns and shapes of all of the plantings.
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Red Sand Garden at Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne
Not all wellness requires fancy spa therapies with fabulous interiors. There are many exterior “garden rooms” that can also provide the restorative healing one finds at wellness facilities with carefully curated and considered landscape design.
The Cranbourne Botanical Gardens are a case in point, where the Red Sand Garden, designed by landscape architects Taylor Cullity Lethlean in association with plant designer Paul Thompson, provides a sensory and aesthetic antidote to the busy visual density of city life. An artistic representation of Australia’s desert centre, this garden feels almost otherworldly in its colour, form and sense of spaciousness, inviting you to slow down, exhale and notice the patterns and shapes of all of the plantings.
