Elisabeth Saint-Amand is a native New Yorker who was influenced early-on to be intrepid and broadminded. Her close family and influences include Leontyne Price as well as senior members of the US Foreign Service. Her lifetime exposure ranges across the globe from Oman, India, Russia along with Eastern and Western Europe. The sum of these influences enables Elisabeth to relate to clientele with a variety of perspectives and to contextualize a design vision beyond that which is immediate or expected.

Prior to founding StA LLC, Elisabeth served as a project manager for the esteemed Madison Cox Associates based in New York City and Morocco. Her principal projects were based in Southampton, NY, Palm Beach County, FL, and the Upper East Side of New York City. The scope of Elisabeth’s responsibilities included drafting complete Design Development and Construction Drawing Sets along with ensuing scope of Construction Administration. Additional exposure included serving as draftsman on Yves Saint Laurent and Agnelli estate gardens in Marrakesh. The entirety of experience with Madison Cox yielded two-fold, the influence of working within an inspired atelier, and the ability to execute honed technical capacity.

Elisabeth received a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia Graduate School of Architecture. Over a decade later in the professional sector, she completed complementary graduate work at Columbia University in the field of Sustainable Water Management. Elisabeth has also completed design and drawing courses in Florence, Venice, and Rome, along with horticultural training in the United Kingdom and a fellowship in the Auvergne, France.

Elisabeth looks to Fergus Garrett, the virtuoso Head Gardener at Great Dixter as visionary in celebrating the intersection of horticulture and ecology, and ultimately, the impact of nurturing layers of our natural world over time.