In & Out of Paris
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Gardens of Secret DelightsAmong the more than 30 great and small projects within In & Out of Paris are Vaux-le-Vicomte, Versailles, and Courances—all classic André Le Nôtre–style French gardens. Also discover the Paris gardens of celebrated artist Jean-Michel Othoniel and art aficionado Pierre Bergé, architect Kenzo Takada’s Japanese retreat in the Bastille, Australian couturier Martin Grant’s tiny terrace in the Marais, Mexican painter MariCarmen Hernandez’s Montmartre rooftop, and American architect Michael Herrman’s homage to Le Corbusier’s surreal Champs Élysées garden for bon vivant Charles de Beistegui. Modern masters Louis Benech, Gilles Clement, Pascal Cribier, Christian Fournet, Camille Muller, Hugues Peuvergne, and Pierre-Alexandre Risser are also featured, representing a new era of experiments, color, and asymmetry in the Paris garden.
Among the more than 30 great and small projects within In & Out of Paris are Vaux-le-Vicomte, Versailles, and Courances—all classic André Le Nôtre–style French gardens. Also discover the Paris gardens of celebrated artist Jean-Michel Othoniel and art aficionado Pierre Bergé, architect Kenzo Takada’s Japanese retreat in the Bastille, Australian couturier Martin Grant’s tiny terrace in the Marais, Mexican painter MariCarmen Hernandez’s Montmartre rooftop, and American architect Michael Herrman’s homage to Le Corbusier’s surreal Champs Élysées garden for bon vivant Charles de Beistegui.
ZAHID SARDAR is a San Francisco–based editor, writer, and curator specializing in architecture, interiors, and design. His work has appeared in Dwell, Interiors, Western Interiors & Design, Interior Design, House & Garden, Elle Décor, House Beautiful, and Landscape Architecture. He has taught design history at the California College of the Arts and has written several other books, including West Coast Modern and New Garden Design.MARION BRENNER is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in numerous books including New Garden Design, and magazines including House & Garden, House Beautiful, Martha Stewart Living, the New York Times, Elle Décor and Sunset. Her work is also in the permanent collections of the SFMOMA and the Berkeley Art Museum, which showcased her photographs in a solo exhibition. She lives and gardens in Berkeley, California.
Magnificent Versailles André Le Nôtre’s garden for the senses “Such symmetry,” nineteenth-century poet Lord Byron observed in Louis XIV’s enviable gardens at the Chateau de Versailles, “is not for solitude.” Designed for pleasure, the baroque gardens represent the zenith of the jardin à la française, with long sight lines and breathtaking details. After 1661, landscape architect André Le Nôtre, architect Louis Le Vau and sculptor Charles le Brun transformed Louis XIII’s former hunting lodge into a palace, and 2,000 acres of farmland and woods to its west became a stirring display of fountains and structural effects for the king’s entertainment. Circular ponds, parterres with flowers and arabesque boxwood hedges, conical topiaries and statuary in the tiered garden all outshone any they created for the king’s hapless minister at Vaux-le-Vicomte. The sun, Louis XIV’s emblem of royal divinity, was the underlying conceit. Radiating gravel paths, symbolizing rays of light, broke the garden’s axial cross plan centered on a palace that was the epitome of French power.
Introduction15 Outside the WallsGarden Estates29 Inspired Vaux-le-Vicomte39 Magnificent Versailles49 Reflections at Courances58 Rodin’s Sculpture Garden63 Désert de Retz Follies65 Monet’s Colorful Giverny71 Experimental Parc Méry-sur-OisePrivate Paris78 Surrealism Near Madeleine85 Louis Benech in Faubourg Saint-Germain89 An Artful Hideout95 Hôtel George V Courtyard99 Kenzo Takada’s Perfect Retreat105 Follies at Villa André Bloc111 Jean-Michel Othoniel’s Herbier119 Up on the Roof123 Contemporary Folly124 Patrick Blanc’s Jungle Inside133 Camille Muller’s Call of the Wild141 Chimneys and Sweeping Views147 Hide-and-Seek Garden150 Rooftop Edens in the 16th158 A Crater with a View165 Hugues Peuvergne at Play173 Montmartre Gallery Garden179 Where the Wild Things Are184 Outdoor Rooms190 A Gardener’s Retreat199 Poolside Roof Garden200 Miniature Estate in Suresnes205 A Private Key to Parc MonceauPublic Parks208 Parc Monceau’s Illusory Past213 A Living Archive of the Planet217 Uncommon Sculpture Park223 Fondation Cartier’s Botanical Theater227 Gilles Clément’s Steamy Jungle233 When Plants Make Waves239 A New Leaf for the Archives242 The New Metro Style247 Lofty Promenade Plantée251 A Dockside Landscape255 Novotel’s Secret CourtyardResources259 Web Sites261 Bibliography263 Acknowledgments
“For the green-thumbed, In & Out of Paris: Gardens of Secret Delights is a gem of a book — offering unbridled access to the capital’s private dwellings, garden estates and public parks.”
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