| 词条 | Draft:Lynden B. Miller |
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Lynden B. Miller (née Breed) born December 8, 1938) is a public garden designer, parks advocate, teacher, author and painter based out of New York City. Beginning in 1982, she led the restoration of The Conservatory Garden —a six-acre, formal garden located in Central Park, Manhattan. Since that time, she has completed over 30 public gardening projects in New York City. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Central Park Conservancy, New Yorkers for Parks, and the New York Botanical Garden. Early Life and EducationLynden B. Miller was born in New York City and grew up in Washington, D.C. She attended Smith College, graduating in 1960. Her affinity for gardening was fostered during two years spent in England, during which time she studied iconic gardens such as Hidcote, Great Dixter, Sissinghurst and Tintinhull. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204518504574416761822659336) Upon her return to New York, she enrolled in classes at the New York Botanical Garden, studying horticulture. She is married to Leigh Miller, who worked for USAID in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, was an international investment banker, and co-founded Friends of UNFPA. She is mother to Gifford Miller, an affordable housing developer and former Speaker of the New York City Council, and Marshall Miller, a former top Justice Department official currently Of Counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, and step-mother to Ethan Miller, Vice President of Finance at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and Christian Miller, proprietor of Full Glass Research, a food and beverage marketing and research company. CareerWhile working as a landscape painter in the early 1980’s, Miller was enlisted by the Central Park Conservancy to oversee the rescue, restoration and redesign of the Conservatory Garden, a garden that had fallen into disrepair following years of neglect, abuse and vandalism. After the restoration was complete, Miller focused on public garden design full time. Her work includes designs for gardens and parks across New York City, including Bryant Park in Midtown, Manhattan; Wagner Park in Battery Park City; Madison Square Park; the Entry Garden at Chelsea Cove in Hudson River Park; the 97th Street Park Avenue Mall,; and The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Additionally, she’s redesigned the plantings for the British Garden in Hanover Square and for the Heather Gardens in Fort Tryon Park, just outside the Historic Cloisters Museum in Washington Heights. She beautified the campuses at Columbia, Princeton and Stony Brook University on Long Island. The Wall Street Journal has said of Lynden Miller that she “has the kind of full-blooming forcefulness that could get a century plant to reconsider its position and flower annually.” After the September 11 attacks, Miller aligned with New Yorkers for Parks, a nonprofit organization championing quality open space for all New Yorkers, to launch The Daffodil Project. One of the largest volunteer efforts in the history of New York, The Daffodil Project coordinated students, gardening and civic organizations, and corporate volunteers in an effort to plant nearly six million daffodil bulbs across the city. The organization expanded in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. In addition to her public garden work, Miller teaches courses on public space and horticulture at New York University. References |
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