THIS Midtown organizer Clay Nutting confirmed the secret guest for September's free block party is Gardens & Villa from Santa Barbara. The band's self titled debut album turned heads in 2011, getting ...

California duo Gardens & Villa will be back with a new album, Music for Dogs, on August 21 via Secretly Canadian. The first single, “Fixations,” is a nice bit of hazy pop (shades of Of Montreal here) ...

Open the curtains, stretch out on the lawn, slip on some sandals — just because it's hot out, that doesn't mean you don't need Vitamin D. For its part, Santa Barbara's Gardens and Villa has been ...

The Santa Barbara quintet Gardens & Villa belongs to the tradition of scruffy California rock bands that make music as big, breezy, weird, and subtly sinister as their home state. Like Beck, Ariel ...

Nestled at the foot of the Alps, Lake Como is dotted with dreamy villages and historic lakefront villas, backed by lush ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Dobson is a full-time luxury travel writer based in Italy. For two thousand years, Lake Como, located in Northern Italy, has ...

The ancient Romans cherished their perfectly symmetrical gardens. “If they didn’t have gardens they painted them on the walls, and if they had gardens they painted them on the walls anyway,” says ...

When the commission for Gardens & Villas reached the family-run architecture office of Andrew and Mark McClure, McClure Homes Design Build, the brief outlined a spec home for sale – a hard task, in a ...