Tomich House

Completed in 1971, Tomich House stands as one of Iwan Iwanoff’s most distinctive works. Over the decades that followed it's build, a series of alterations and a significant three-level extension in 1986 gradually departed from the architect’s original vision, and the house, along with its garden, fell into disrepair.

When a new owner purchased the property, a large scale restoration was began. Our role was to bring the garden back, not as it had been, but as it should have been. There is no established precedent for restoring an Iwanoff garden. Instead, we took time to understand his body of work, using the architecture itself as the guide. The paired-back material palette gives the architecture the space it needs. We chose plants that feel at home in the home's the coastal setting, a mixture of natives, Mediterranean plants and succulents.