Tommaso del Buono in Conversation

Tommaso del Buono, CMLI FSGLD, left his native Italy in the 80’s to study at the University of Greenwich. After completing his studies in 1987 he worked in London for different practices and, after a 3 year stint at Michael Hopkins and Partners, he joined Arabella Lennox-Boyd’s practice where, in the course of a 10 year long collaboration, he was involved in a wide range of projects both in the UK and abroad. 

He set up his first practice ‘del Buono Gazerwitz’ in 2000 and is nowadays the sole principal of TdB Studio, with offices in London and his hometown, Florence, where he spends much of his time.  

His work has been widely published in magazines and books both in the UK and abroad. 

2008 saw the creation of a first Show Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show; ‘Summer Solstice’ for sponsor Daylesford Organic, awarded a Silver Gilt Medal, whilst in 2014 he was awarded a Gold Medal for his second Chelsea garden created this time for the Daily Telegraph; he has also twice been the recipient of the SGLD’s ‘Grand Award’, in 2016 and 2022 for his projects “A Château in Provence”, and “Davines Village, Parma” respectively. 

Having been made a Fellow of the Society in 2023 he has been included in House & Garden “Top 50 Garden and Landscape Designers” for the last 10 years.  

Clare Foster is Garden Editor at House & Garden magazine and a freelance garden journalist. After starting her career in book publishing, she spent nine years at Gardens Illustrated magazine (1996-2005), latterly as Editor. She has been at House & Garden since 2005, where she is responsible for all the garden-related content of the magazine. As well as writing about plants and gardens, Clare has always gardened herself, first on an allotment in London, and now in her garden in West Berkshire. She is the author of six books including most recently Pastoral Gardens (2024, Montgomery Press) and writes a weekly column on Substack.