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Biography: Smyth, Edmund Owen

Mitchell Garden

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A photograph showing a garden with rectangular pool surrounded by steps and boxed gardens and lit with blue light

In Ted Smyth’s Mitchell Garden at Ōrākei (1998), portals and neon lighting frame a symmetrical stepped pool.

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Jacqueline Margetts and Rod Barnett. 'Smyth, Edmund Owen', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47574/mitchell-garden (accessed 4 June 2026).