Garden in the French Style Square Pillow — Vintage Green Jardin Motif

Garden in the French Style Square Pillow — Vintage Green Jardin Motif

16" × 16"
$41.99
$41.99
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Garden in the French Style Square Pillow — Vintage Green Jardin Motif
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  • Garden in the French Style Square Pillow — Vintage Green Jardin Motif
  • Garden in the French Style Square Pillow — Vintage Green Jardin Motif
  • Garden in the French Style Square Pillow — Vintage Green Jardin Motif
  • Garden in the French Style Square Pillow — Vintage Green Jardin Motif
  • Garden in the French Style Square Pillow — Vintage Green Jardin Motif
  • Garden in the French Style Square Pillow — Vintage Green Jardin Motif
Garden in the French Style Square Pillow — Vintage Green Jardin Motif

Garden in the French Style Square Pillow — Vintage Green Jardin Motif

$41.99
$41.99
Description

The French garden — the jardin à la française that André Le Nôtre perfected at Vaux-le-Vicomte and then at Versailles — was above all a design argument: that nature, properly ordered, reveals its own deeper patterns, that the parterre and the allée and the reflecting pool are not impositions upon the landscape but elicitations of what was always there. The green of those gardens — that particular cultivated green of the clipped boxwood and the sculpted yew — has no exact equivalent in nature. It is a green that has been worked at, maintained, achieved. This pillow’s jardin motif draws from that green and from the design tradition it represents.

The French garden design vocabulary — the formal parterre, the topiary, the ordered path between clipped hedges — has influenced decorative arts for three centuries, migrating from the actual gardens into patterns on faïence, into textile designs, into the motifs that appear on the walls and floors of the great houses. This pillow belongs to that tradition of translation: the garden brought inside, its geometry and its green made portable and domestic.

For any interior that is trying to establish a conversation with the French garden tradition, this pillow makes the case efficiently and without fuss. Available in 16″×16″, 18″×18″, 20″×20″, 24″×24″, and 26″×26″. Insert included.
A Note from Jeff

I have walked the great gardens of France enough times to have a very specific memory of what the light does to that particular green in the late afternoon. At Versailles it is most dramatic — the low sun coming through the bosquets and catching the topiary at an angle that turns the green almost metallic. At Villandry, the greens are more various, more domestic. In both places, the sense that the garden has been thought about with the same seriousness as any painting is unmistakable.

This pillow brings something of that seriousness into a domestic scale. The green is right, the motif is right, and it knows exactly what it is doing in a room put together with care.
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