No matter: The lavender color is still carried throughout the property, with plantings of salvia and Russian sage blooming blue-purple. And there are lavender plantings behind the boxwood hedges. “We simply have more green and are not as arid in the summers,” says Adels, “and we rely more on grass than they do [in Provence]. We took the best of what we dreamt of and married it to the landscape of Virginia.”
And, working in Virginia today, Adels recently completed a bold residence, stable and polo grounds at Foxlease Farm in Upperville, the former estate of John Archbold, a co-founder of Standard Oil. “I can’t think of anything further from a mosque than a hunt country house,” says Adels, “but if you’re good, and the client is good, the building will emerge.” That is certainly true of the home he built for himself.
(Originally published in the August 2008 issue.)
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