De Vésian created gardens by studying the region, its plants, its light and its agricultural traditions
After a career as a designer working for such great design houses as Hermès, Nicole de Vésian (1916–96) moved to Provence and created her first garden. On the narrow terraces around her home, de Vésian designed her own masterpiece in a minimal but far from austere style, composed mainly of heathland plants (varieties of thyme, lavender, rosemary, rockrose and box tree), in which she pruned all her plants to cushion shapes of varying yet superbly proportioned sizes, resulting in a breathtaking scene. Her gardens soon inspired gardeners and landscapers around the world. Today, few gardens have been imitated as readily as those of de Vésian. Her most notable garden is La Louve, which is her garden in Bonnieux, a French hilltop village in the Luberon area of Provence.
Nicole de Vésian: Gardens is an up-to-date edition of de Vésian’s bestselling 2011 monograph, with a new postface describing de Vésian's influence on the art of gardening. In general, the publication acts as a tribute to de Vésian and her life. Her close friend, acclaimed garden historian Louisa Jones (The Garden Visitor’s Companion), shares her own thoughts on the work of this atypical creator, accompanied by accounts from her friends and pupils: Christian Lacroix, the nursery owner Jean-Marie Rey, the landscape artists Arnaud Maurières, Éric Ossart and Marc Nucera, as well as the garden historians Roy Strong and John Brookes. As Louisa Jones writes, de Vésian "has a feeling for space like musicians have a feeling for music." 德维西安通过研究当地的植物、光线和农业传统来创造花园。妮可 · 德维西安(Nicole De Vésian,1916-1996)在爱马仕(Hermès)这样伟大的设计公司担任设计师后,移居普罗旺斯,创造了她的第一个花园。在她家周围狭窄的露台上,德维西安设计了她自己的杰作,以一种简约但远非简朴的风格,主要由石南植物(百里香、薰衣草、迷迭香、岩蔷薇和箱形树的品种)组成,她修剪了所有的植物,以缓冲形状各不相同,但超级比例,造成了一个惊人的场景。她的花园很快启发了世界各地的园丁和园林设计师。今天,很少有花园像德韦西安的那些花园那样容易被模仿。她最著名的花园是拉卢夫,这是她在博尼约的花园,一个位于普罗旺斯 Luberon 地区的法国山顶村庄。妮可 · 德 · 维西安: 《花园》是德 · 维西安2011年最畅销的专著的最新版本,新的封面描述了德 · 维西安对园艺艺术的影响。总的来说,这本书是对德维西安及其一生的致敬。她的好朋友,著名的园林历史学家路易莎 · 琼斯(《花园游客指南》) ,分享了她对这位非典型创造者的作品的看法,同时还有她的朋友和学生的描述: 克里斯汀·拉克鲁瓦,托儿所老板让-玛丽 · 雷伊,风景画家阿诺 · 莫里埃尔,埃里克 · 奥萨特和马克 · 努塞拉,以及园林历史学家罗伊 · 斯特朗和约翰 · 布鲁克斯。正如路易莎 · 琼斯(LouisaJones)所写,德维西安“对空间有感觉,就像音乐家对音乐有感觉一样。” 基本信息 出版社 : Actes Sud (2019年7月16日) 语言 : 英语 精装 : 154页 ISBN-10 : 2330120370 ISBN-13 : 978-2330120375 商品重量 : 800 g 尺寸 : 21.84 x 1.78 x 24.38 cm
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