Nicole de V�sian - Gardens: Modern Design in Provence - Hardcover

Louisa Jones

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9782742797349: Nicole de V�sian - Gardens: Modern Design in Provence

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ISBN 10: 2742797343 ISBN 13: 9782742797349

Publisher: Actes Sud, 2013

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After a brilliant career as a stylist in Paris and New York, culminating in ten years with Herm�s, Nicole de V�sian (1916–1996) retired to Provence, where, at the age of 70, she began designing La Louve. Now a European icon, this garden was soon inspiring designers and gardeners from New Zealand to New England. Nicole de V�sian had, as Louisa Jones puts it, ‘a feeling for space the way some musicians have perfect pitch – for volumes, planes and textures, all transformed by the liquid Mediterranean light.’ On these narrow terraces, she created a garden for year-round living, minimalist but sensuous. The plants she shaped into beautifully proportioned, grey and green tapestries were often the very species which grow wild on the hillside opposite: cypress, laurel, arbutus, rosemary and thyme. Some visitors consider this a formal garden, others see it as wild, or even Japanese. V�sian also designed other gardens nearby, largely unknown, presented here for the first time. Louisa Jones reflects here on V�sian’s art, on her evolution and the qualities that make her works cherished by so many even long after her death. Jones includes a rich range of testimonials from former colleagues such as Marc Nucera or Jean-Marie Rey, distinguished visitors such as Christopher Lloyd, and garden historians such as John Brookes and Sir Roy Strong.

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HardCover. Pub Date :2013-03-04 Pages: 152 Language: English Publisher: Actes Sud After a brilliant career as a stylist in Paris and New York. culminating in ten years with Herms. Nicole de Vsian (19161996) retired to Provence. where. at the age of 70. she began designing La Louve. Now a European icon. this garden was soon inspiring designers and gardeners from New Zealand to New England. Nicole de Vsian had. as Louisa Jones puts it . a feeling for space the way some musicians have perfect pitch for volumes. planes and textures. all transformed by the liquid Mediterranean light. On these narrow terraces. she created a garden for year-round living. minimalist but sensuous. The plants she shaped into beautifully proportioned. grey and green tapestries were often the very species which grow wild on the hillside opposite: cypress. laurel. arbutus. rosemary and thyme. Some visito...

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