How Designer John Sharp Created an Outdoor Oasis for 'Ratched' Actor Charlie Carver
The night Charlie Carver envisioned a meandering outdoor oasis behind his Silver Lake bungalow took place well before lockdown. Two years ago, on an evening when the actor gave a moonlit mandolin recital at his house — "I'd ordered a nonrefundable mandolin, and it turned into an excuse to have a really sweet garden party," he says — Carver and landscape designer John Sharp found themselves wandering through the property's long-neglected tumble of pepper trees, ficus and weeds.