Jardin Tray Plan No. 1

The jardin plan — the formal drawing of a French garden seen from above — is one of the great graphic forms of European design history. From the 17th-century plans of the Versailles parterre to the 19th-century surveys of the parks of Lyon and Bordeaux, the overhead view of the French formal garden reveals a kind of intelligence that is invisible at ground level: the axes that organize the whole, the symmetries that hold the parts in tension, the carefully calculated sightlines that make the garden readable at every scale. The Jardin Tray Plan No. 1 carries one such plan as its printed surface — the geometric intelligence of the French formal garden tradition, made into an object for daily use.

The design draws from the tradition of the potager and the parterre de broderie — the kitchen garden and the ornamental bed — where the French instinct for organizing the natural world into legible form produces its most intimate and most human-scaled results. At this scale, the garden plan is not a grand axial composition but a considered arrangement of beds, paths, and plantings that rewards close inspection in the way that good design always does.

Available in four sizes. Works as a serving tray, a desk organizer, a breakfast tray, or a surface for displaying small objects with the authority of a garden planner who knew what they were doing.