André Le Nôtre Tray

André Le Nôtre Tray

Large Tray (17 x 13")
$108.95
$108.95
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André Le Nôtre Tray

André Le Nôtre Tray

$108.95
$108.95
Description

André Le Nôtre gave France its geometry. Between 1656 and his death in 1700, he redesigned the French relationship to the outdoors — imposing on the landscape the same rational order that Descartes had imposed on philosophy and Colbert on commerce. Versailles. Vaux-le-Vicomte. Chantilly. The Tuileries. The man was not a gardener. He was an argument.

He deserves a better surface than a cocktail napkin. This original digital collage portrait — designed by Jeff Barnes and available exclusively through Vintage Voyagers France — puts Le Nôtre where he belongs: presiding over whatever you choose to serve. The tray is lacquered to a high gloss, lipped to keep things where they belong, and printed with the kind of fidelity that does justice to a man who spent his life insisting that everything be precisely where it should be.

It is, in short, the most distinguished surface your aperitif has ever rested on.
A Note from Jeff

I have stood in the gardens of Versailles more times than I can count — usually in the early morning, before the crowds arrive and the fountains start performing for tourists. At that hour, with the light still low and the parterres casting long shadows across the gravel, you understand what Le Nôtre actually achieved. It is not decoration. It is the organization of infinity into something a human being can comprehend.

I made this collage as a small act of appreciation for a man who is remembered as a gardener and should be remembered as one of the great visual thinkers of the seventeenth century. Serve something worthy of him.
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