Le Jardin Français
The French garden is not a place of rest. It is a proposition. From the moment Le Nôtre imposed his geometry on Versailles—aligning the axis with the horizon and clipping nature into philosophy—the French exterior space has operated as an extension of the intellect as much as the eye. But travel further, into the walled potagers of the Loire, the lavender-edged terraces of a Luberon mas, and the gravel-and-box parterres of a Normandy manoir, and you encounter something older and more personal: a gardener's argument with time, with season, and with stone. Jardins is a collection drawn from those spaces—objects and accessories that carry the weight of the French exterior world indoors and out again.
