Friday, February 10, 2012 - Page updated at 02:03 a.m.
BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER / THE SEATTLE TIMES
David Smith walks out the door of his Javanese joglo into a courtyard paved in granite planks and millstones imported from China. "There's complexity and simplicity in all the elements," says David Pfeiffer of the garden he designed for his friend. Read story
David Smith's Vashon house is Java old, garden new
David Smith, importer and Seattle retailer, traveled to China and Japan a couple of years ago with landscape architect David Pfeiffer. The friends and collaborators visited contemplative and scholars' gardens, looking for inspiration for Smith's Vashon Island garden.
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