The Secret Gardens of Paris,9780500510179

The Secret Gardens of Paris

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ISBN13: 9780500510179
ISBN10: 0500510172
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-10-01
Publisher(s): W W Norton & Co Inc
List Price: $45.00

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Summary

This collection reveals some 50 gardens, all created with passion by their owners, often in collaboration with well-known landscape designers. Each proprietor discusses the conditions in which the garden was created, the constraints and problems encountered, and explains why the final designs and plantings were chosen. 220 color photos.

Table of Contents

The Unknown Paris 6(9)
Classical Gardens 9(76)
Cool shade and brilliant light
10(6)
Arabella Lennox-Boyd
Classical simplicity for Hubert de Givenchy
16(7)
An understated complement to a neoclassical mansion
23(5)
A theatrical statement
28(5)
Louis Benech
Nature harnessed to a purpose in eighteenth-century style
33(5)
Where romance is in the air
38(2)
The miniature garden of an American in Paris
40(4)
Originality and sensuality on the Ile Saint-Louis
44(6)
A spirit of adventure expressed
50(7)
Pierre Berge
A haven of peace in Saint-Germain-des-Pres
57(2)
A legacy of contrasts from the 1940s
59(3)
President and Madame Giscard d'Estaing's garden for all seasons
62(5)
An artist's small miracle of harmony and balance
67(3)
A discerning blend of shrubs and perennials
70(5)
Yves Saint Laurent's finely tailored garden
75(3)
Symmetry and luxury combined to spectacular effect
78(7)
Picturesque Gardens 85(60)
Nature and sculpture in a sea of green
86(5)
Recapturing the mood of the nineteenth century
91(5)
Camille Muller's exercise in restrained luxuriance
96(7)
Memories of Brittany on the Montagne Sainte-Genevieve
103(3)
An out-of-the-ordinary kitchen garden
106(4)
Where Napoleon's favourite actor strolled
110(4)
An informal family garden in the Marais
114(4)
A feminine ambience inspired by fashion and art
118(4)
The romantic indulgence of a master landscape designer
122(7)
Hector Guimard's Art Nouveau garden restored to perfection
129(5)
A green oasis in a secret setting
134(6)
Where the elephant stands guard
140(5)
Exotic Gardens 145
Baron and Baronne d'Orgeval's taste of rural Russia
146
An Italian fantasy in a Parisian courtyard
150
Kenzo's Japanese landscape in miniature
153
A lush Asian paradise on the Left Bank
158
Introducing flavours of Africa and the Orient
164
A garden with a spiritual dimension
171

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