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Mud Stew represents the innate creative and therapeutic process within us when we connect with nature. From the time we were children we were making mud stew, mud pie, and molding clay and sand into objects. As designers we continue to construct and reconstruct form from the world around us whether it be with natural or built materials or with a stroke of a pen or technical tool. Like mud stew, it’s almost always a collaborative process, and comes from the stories deep within us or our client. The result is a patina of landscape elements, ideas forged, and the memories made.

MSM is a hub for curated storied landscape elements to be retold. We resell exterior design objects whether they were previously constructed, live in a shop drawing, or are an adapted recreation of a sophisticated design. Designs can be any landscape object or art, including furniture, statement pieces, fountains, fire pits, outdoor living objects like kitchens, and unique design palettes or details. These storied designs, whether reconstructed, reimagined, or relocated, are given new life and purpose, making timeless landscape art accessible to a broader audience while preserving its history and meaning.

As curators of outdoor objects, we specialize in finding the right piece for your project. The procurement process incorporates not only storied objects, but those that are created anew. We thrive on hearing about the conceptual meaning and goals behind your outdoor living project and will apply our experience and vendor relationships to help you complete the whole story, as well as maintain your project’s design integrity with every design decision. We provide design solutions that involve new outdoor objects that are available only to the trade, customized, on the open market, or from a manufacturer that we have a business relationship with, like Crescent Garden. We are proud to be the Mid Atlantic Trade Sales Representative for this innovative, food safe, self-watering, environmentally sensitive brand of planters and furniture as they strive to make gardening and outdoor living accessible to all, a value that we share.

• Click here to see Crescent Garden planters and furniture.

• Click here to contact Lisa, your Mid-Atlantic Region Crescent Garden Trade Sales Representative.

• Click here if you are a vendor, craftsperson, or manufacturer of landscape objects in need of a trade sales representative for your product.

When you need help getting an outdoor living design project started or filling in the gaps on your design team, tap into our history in landscape concept design. We have years of experience consulting alongside award winning landscape architects and designers, homeowners, business owners and communities of all sizes. We help you communicate your conceptual ideas to create an informed, intuitive, and precise outcome together, one that is specialized, adaptive, evoking of emotion, and most of all, feels complete and personalized to you, your client, or customer.

Some examples of how we can help as an exterior design consultant:

• Present site furnishing options to you or your design team.

• Create outdoor living design concepts including object and furniture configurations unique to your brand and client.

• Manage the outdoor furniture design process of your project through a personalized and confidential lens.

• Blend your landscape object palette seamlessly with your planting and hardscape palette.

• Recommend and order furniture, planters, umbrellas, garden art, accessories, and outdoor entertainment pieces.

• Oversee delivery, assembly, and quality assurance.

• Work with you to stage the exterior of your residential, commercial, or real estate project.

• Recommend outdoor living objects like planters and furniture for your business.