Nicole de vésian - gardens

Modern design in provence

Louisa Jones - Collection Nature

160 pages, parution le 03/04/2019

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After a brilliant career as a stylist in Paris and New York, culminating in ten years with Hermès, Nicole de Vésian (1916-1996) retired to Provence where, at the age of seventy, 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 Vésian 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. Vésian also designed other gardens nearby, largely unknown, presented here for the first time.

Louisa Jones reflects on Vésian'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 selection of testimonials from former colleagues such as Marc Nucera and Jean-Marie Rey, distinguished visitors such as Christopher Lloyd, and garden historians including John Brookes and Sir Roy Strong.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Actes Sud
Auteur(s)	Louisa Jones
Collection	Nature
Parution	03/04/2019
Nb. de pages	160
Format	21.9 x 24.6
Couverture	Relié
Poids	796g
EAN13	9782330120375