09/11/2020
This space used to be an apple processing house within Oak Spring Farm, part of the Paul and Bunny Mellon estate in Upperville Virginia. It is part of a small detached building whose interiors were dark and industrial, yet whose housing served its agricultural purpose well.
Now owned by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Bunny Mellon’s vision to create a venue to foster the continued scholarship and public dialogue of horticulture, this former stark space was brilliantly renovated by Gruver Cooley, Gruver Cooley Interiors, and ACG Architects. The detached building now called The Apple House, contains two floors of new meeting rooms for those participating in conferences and workshops hosted by the Foundation.
Gruver Cooley and Gruver Cooley Interiors recently won a Chrysalis Award under the category “2020 Regional Award for Detached Outbulding”. I offer them hearty congratulations!! So well deserved!! I am ever so flattered and proud to have been entrusted to represent their quality work for industry awards. Helping clients succeed is the most rewarding aspect of what I do. Truly! It “floats my boat”! It keeps me going!