The garden is not just a decoration: it is a living system that requires vision, technique and deep biological knowledge.
My name is Cristina Mazzucchelli, and my approach to garden design stems from an unconventional journey. Before training as a landscape designer, I built my foundation as a biologist specializing in molecular genetics.
My scientific background is not a constraint on creativity, but rather its most valuable ally. It allows me to curate the "invisible details"—from botanical requirements to ecological balance and technical precision—ensuring that every project is not just a fleeting vision, but a living organism destined to thrive.
In this fusion of technical rigor and artistic inspiration, nature becomes a partner to imagination. Every plant pairing, creative element, and choice of material is designed to transform a space into an authentic sensory experience, where composition serves as the signature that makes the whole unforgettable.
From the initial intuition to the finest detail, we work together to breathe life into the garden you have always dreamed of.
CRISTINA MAZZUCCHELLI
Founder
Passionate about nature, a biologist with a doctorate in molecular genetics, after various experiences abroad, she indulges her vocation for the art of gardens, training at the Scuola Agraria di Monza and the Faculty of Agriculture in Milan.
After an apprenticeship in a large nursery, she opens her own landscape architecture studio. From the first steps to the realization, Cristina is personally involved in projects of various scales, from terraces, especially in the Milan area, to gardens, from public parks to installations, basing her achievements on scientific rigor, functionality and imagination.
The continuous search for plants capable of thriving even in difficult contexts, such as urban ones, and the incessant exploration of possible botanical compositions that are durable and able to amaze for variety of shapes, colors and scents represent a hallmark of her work, inherited from the habit of experimenting in the scientific field. A member of AIAPP (Italian Association of Landscape Architecture), she has participated in and won various awards and competitions. Due to the originality of her approach, she is frequently invited as a speaker at conferences and conventions, and collaborates with several newspapers, producing reports on gardens, landscape and botanical culture.
Her work is regularly published in both national and international prestigious journals in the field of gardens and architecture. His terraces
have appeared for years and continuously in Gardenia magazine, an Italian reference point in green culture.
AWARDS
- Winner of the Lavinia Taverna Prize (2007)
- Selected with 'Locus genii: le genie est partout' at the International Competition of the Festival des Jardines in Chaumont sur Loire, France (2012)
- Special Mention and Commendation for the Dancing Herb Park at the Council of Europe Landscape Prize (2013 and 2015 edition)
- Winner with 'Mediterranean Windows' at the Radicity International Competition 'The heart of Eboli' (2017)
- Special mention with Stefano Prina for the installation 'High tide: whales sing to the moon' at Orticolario, Villa Erba in Cernobbio, Como (2017)
- Nomination with the installation 'Raphsody in violet' at the International Competition 'MOSCOW FLOWER' Moscow, Russia (2018)
STEFANIA CELLINI
Contributor
Landscape architect with more than ten years of international experience between Italy and Switzerland.
After a solid education in Architecture obtained in 2013, Stefania focused her professional practice on landscape design, collaborating with globally prominent signatures. Through an active network of strategic collaborations, strengthened by robust skills acquired in the field, she contributes in the conception and development of design proposals on different scales, combining architectural rigor with aesthetic and ecological sensitivity.
