Classic Gardens
The French Style
Jean-Pierre Babelon
Mic Chamblas-Ploton
Photographs by Jean-Baptiste Leroux
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A vivid visual record of a stunning genre, this is a book that will inspire all gardeners and landscape architects.
The great formal gardens in the French style are among the most ambitious works of art ever created. Born of a taste for regularity and symmetry and a desire to tame nature, they continue to inspire modern garden designers.
From Versailles in France and Queluz in Portugal to Peterhof in Russia, the reader is taken on a grand tour through Europe and Russia that revels in glorious examples of the garden as art.
Nearly 200 superb illustrations, including detailed plans, reveal the splendours which bring gardeners from all over the world to the thirty-six gardens featured. The authors also expound on the history of the formal French style, from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to the present day, exploring who commissioned the gardens, who designed them, and their purpose.
Jean-Baptiste Babelon was director of the museum and park at Versailles for seven years. Mic Chamblas-Ploton has written extensively on French gardens. Jean-Baptiste Leroux is a renowned photographer of landscapes and gardens.
Also of interest:
The French Country Garden
Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory
The Picturesque Garden in Europe
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