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The 2024 Schuler Award honors architect Richard Sammons and his clients for a lakeside house he designed on Hi Mount Road in Palm Beach.

Town of Palm Beach, landscape designer win Smith award for redesign of Lake Drive Park

The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach just honored a major restoration and renovation project at the 1924 White Elephant hotel for its exemplary public architecture.

The Edward E. and Suzanne G. Elson Award will recognize outstanding new construction or major rehabilitation of a commercial or public space

Gretchen Leach was chairwoman for the\u00a050th anniversary ball, which took place April 8 at The Breakers

Jorge Sanchez of SMI Landscape Architecture lists the 16 awards the firm has received over the years, showing its expertise in plants.

The 2022 Lesly S. Smith Landscape Award for excellence in landscape design awarded to couple who redid their landscaping primarily with native plants

Palm Beach Daily News When the Garden Club of America canceled all its sanctioned shows for 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, Garden Club of Palm Beach President Mary Pressly decided to hit reset because "I felt as though our members needed to come together and our community needed uplifting." She came up with the idea, she told the Daily News, to create a flower show outside as as stand-in for the biennial GCA-sanctioned event that was on tap for this year. That idea will become a real...

As kickoffs go, this one is Rockettes level. A collaboration between a Palm Beach couple and two Palm Beach foundations has created a $250,000 matching gift to support the food programs of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County. More Palm Beach society news here. The gift from Christine and Bob Stiller, the Marjorie S. Fisher Fund, and the Smith Brothers Family Foundation kicks off the Boys & Girls Clubs 50th anniversary year. Quite the grand battement, no? The gift also is a show of ...

NewsSocietyShiny ShotsArtsReal Estate NewsLifestyleUSA TODAYObituariesE-Edition Award-winning lakefront garden opens for pandemic-delayed tour Kit Pannill took visitors through her 1-acre lakefront garden Dec. 17, more than eight months after she won the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beachs Lesly S. Smith Landscape Award. Jodie Wagner Palm Beach Daily News A planned tour of Kit Pannills award-winning garden was delayed for more than eight months, first by the coronavirus pandemic and then by...