Nature meets art: Modern outlook, primal impact at Dumbarton Oaks
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You don't expect whimsy on a walk through the formal gardens of Dumbarton Oaks. Geometric rose beds and manicured boxwoods, yes. But you're just not going to find nature running its course at the quiet Georgetown estate.
Until you round the main house and pass the stern stone pineapples standing sentry over the grassy ellipse. Rising up from what was once a restrained oasis of green is something primal, even playful: heaps of sticks and branches that look like they've been whipped by a cyclone into living forms. Part wood, part wind, their wispy topknots disappear into the surrounding ring of hornbeam trees.
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