Easy Does It In New Orleans

Sydney Besthoff tells his story in a subdued version of his city's jambalaya idiom, the argot used by affluent New Orleans natives as they recount any event worth comment.

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February 24, 2004, 6:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Besthoff is the former K&B drugstore king, whose donation of more than 40 contemporary sculptures forms the core of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. The garden opened in City Park in November 2003; Sawyer/Berson Architecture and Landscape Architecture of New York City and Lee Ledbetter Architects of New Orleans collaborated on the six-year project for the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Thanks to Jeffrey Lofton

FULL STORY: Easy Does it in New Orleans

Monday, February 23, 2004 in American Society Of Landscape Architects

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