The Estate at Florentine Gardens:

Tradition Refined

The Estate at Florentine Gardens renewed its grounds with durable, modern design that preserves its timeless elegance.

Location: New Jersey, USA

Year Completed: 2024

Estate at Florentine Gardens courtyard with Westmount pavers in Shale Grey and Onyx Black, enhancing the formal garden design.

Hospitality

A Venue Where Old World Charm Meets Modern Landscape Design

For more than three decades, couples have chosen the Estate at Florentine Gardens — a Georgian-style wedding venue surrounded by fountains, gazebos, and manicured lawns — as the setting for their garden weddings and private celebrations. The estate is renowned for blending old world design with elegant outdoor settings.

But after two decades, the original brick paving had worn down, disrupting the elegance of every garden path and compromising guest safety. Settlement, weather damage, and faded finishes no longer reflected the estate’s reputation as a premier luxury landscape. The owners needed a solution that would respect tradition while introducing a modern landscape design built on durable materials and refined detailing.

Pedestrian Plaza

Residential/Pedestrian

ADA

Aerial view of Florentine Gardens with Westmount pavers in Shale Grey and Onyx Black forming symmetrical paths around a fountain.

The Challenge

Restoring Beauty and Function

Safety and Durability

Replace uneven bricks to eliminate puddling and slippery surfaces, ensuring safe circulation for thousands of guests, furniture loads, and seasonal freeze–thaw cycles.

Design Alignment

Introduce a grey paver palette that refreshed the grounds yet harmonized with the mansion’s old world design.

Timeless Elegance

Provide a neutral, photo-ready backdrop that enhances floral arrangements, gowns, and lighting in every outdoor garden setting.

Ease of Care

Ensure the paver texture, tone, and finish resist stains, fading, and wear in this high-traffic private event space.

The Solution

Techo-Bloc Westmount in Shale Grey

Without hesitation the owners selected Techo-Bloc’s Westmount HD² Smooth in Shale Grey, complemented with Onyx Black accents. Installed in clean lines with chevron paver patterns and bordered with contrasting black pavers, the design delivered a sophisticated balance of modern refresh and timeless elegance — elevating the venue’s signature wedding garden.

Westmount HD² Smooth is part of Techo-Bloc’s premium commercial pavers collection, engineered for both commercial landscape projects and luxury architectural projects. With crisp edges, a refined paver texture, and proven durability, it is ideal for hardscape installations in modern courtyards, garden paths, and exclusive event spaces.

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Estate at Florentine Gardens pathway paved with Westmount HD² Smooth in Shale Grey and Onyx Black, framing the garden entrance.

Engineered Durability

HD² surface technology ensures resistance to stains, fading, and wear — providing durable materials for long-lasting paver installations in high-traffic spaces.

Long garden walkway paved in Westmount HD² Smooth, featuring Shale Grey slabs with Onyx Black accents in a chevron layout.

Dimensional Precision

Enables refined paving patterns such as chevron and bordered layouts, showcasing thoughtful hardscaping ideas that balance tradition with modern landscaping.

Aerial view of landscaped paths paved with Westmount HD² Smooth in Shale Grey and Onyx Black, creating geometric garden patterns.

Resilient Performance

Unlike poured concrete, modular pavers flex with seasonal ground movement, ensuring performance for this commercial paving project in New Jersey’s climate.

The Result

A Timeless Wedding Garden

The renewed landscape blends old world design with modern landscaping, creating a venue that is as functional as it is photogenic. With Westmount HD² Smooth in Shale Grey as the primary surface — accented with subtle touches of Westmount in Onyx Black — the estate’s gardens now deliver the clarity, safety, and timelessness required of a luxury wedding venue.

Safety & Durability

Smooth, slip-resistant grey pavers ensure safe circulation for thousands of guests in all weather conditions, reinforcing the estate’s reputation as a premier private event space.

Design Alignment

Westmount’s clean lines and refined texture harmonize with the Georgian mansion’s old world design, while Onyx Black accents add definition and contrast along select garden paths.

Timeless Elegance

Neutral tones and crisp paver patterns create a backdrop that photographs beautifully, enhancing floral arrangements, gowns, and lighting for unforgettable garden weddings.

Final Design Detail

The transformation continued beyond the garden. A Villagio driveway in Shale Grey adds European charm with its cobblestone design, rounded edges, and subtle variations for an inviting, timeless look.

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