JHC Trustees bring a depth of experience and knowledge to our nonprofit to help us expand our community impact and accomplish our mission to educate. Please join us in welcoming our newest trustee Emmy Lambert. Emmy served as the Design Chair of our 2025 Jay Soirée, A Night in the Gardens of Spain.
As founder and creative director of Cliff Walk Designs, an ecologically focused landscape design studio based in Larchmont, Emmy Lambert brings a refined aesthetic and deep reverence for the natural world in every garden she creates. Established in 2022, Cliff Walk Designs is named after the beloved Cliff Walk near her childhood summer home in Prouts Neck, Maine – a coastal landscape of striking natural beauty which also served as a profound source of inspiration for artist Winslow Homer. It remains a touchstone for Emmy‘s design philosophy: poetic, grounded, and attuned to place.
Guided by formal training in horticultural and landscape design from the New York Botanical Gardens, Emmy’s work embodies, the harmony between elegance and ecology. Each project reflects a commitment to beauty, balance, and biodiversity – landscapes that are as restorative as they are timeless. Before founding her studio, she spent over 13 years in luxury public relations and events, representing iconic houses, including the Estée Lauder Company and Cartier North America. She also consulted for heritage brands such as Farrow & Ball, Dempsey & Carroll as well as the distinctive coastal community of Windsor, Florida.
Ultimately her sense of composition and lifelong love for plants, wildlife, and environmental conservation guided her towards a more purposeful path – rooted in design, stewardship, and the quiet beauty of nature.
Emmy has served on the Larchmont Garden Civic Association as Board member at large. Her current work includes several residential sites in Westchester County, as well as the landscape restoration of Constitution Park in the village of Larchmont, New York, where she resides with her family and their miniature long-haired dachshund.