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Haurongo: 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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by Gil Hanly

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Jacqueline Margetts rāua ko Rod Barnett. 'Smyth, Edmund Owen', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/47574/mitchell-garden (accessed 4 June 2026).