When Your Backyard Costs $37.5 Million
Meet François Goffinet, the Belgian aristocrat turned landscape architect for billionaires.
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When the world's superrich shop for a lavish garden to frame their sprawling estates, they call Belgian master-landscaper François Goffinet.
Goffinet's secret weapon: a deep knowledge of the land and a timeless classical style. With his pavilions, ironwork, gate lodges, and follies (who doesn’t love a good hedge maze?), he’s reviving the grand tradition of the 18th century one garden at the time.