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André Le Nôtre in Perspective Hardcover – February 4, 2014

4.1 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
A beautifully illustrated investigation of the life, work, and legacy of the great 17th-century landscape and garden designer

André Le Nôtre (1613–1700), principal gardener to Louis XIV, was France’s greatest landscape and garden designer. The parks created by him at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles are the supreme examples of the French 17th-century style of garden design. He was responsible also for the central pathway through the Tuileries, which became the grand axis of Paris running to the Arc de Triomphe and on to La Défense.
 
This magnificent book sheds new light on the royal gardener’s life and his practice as a landscape architect, engineer and art collector, and examines the legacy of his influence. It highlights his major achievements and enhances our understanding of the French formal-garden model. Le Nôtre’s output is re-examined in terms of its social and cultural contexts; its artistic, technological, material and spatial components; and the dissemination of his ideas. The book contains illustrations of both original documents and the majority of extant drawings by Le Nôtre and his collaborators.  Comprehensive and impeccably researched, André Le Nôtre in Perspective brings together the scholarship of some of the world’s leading experts in early-modern art, gardens and allied fields.
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  1. Print length
    416 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Editions Hazan, Paris
  4. Publication date
    February 4, 2014
  5. Dimensions
    10.5 x 1.5 x 12.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0300199392
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0300199390
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“. . . explores [Le Nôtre’s] astounding creations . . . [and] examines how the visionary Frenchman’s work continues to reverberate in public spaces today.”—Mitchell Owens, Architectural Digest (Mitchell Owens Architectural Digest)

“This lavishly illustrated volume is published to mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of the great garden designer, André Le Notre, and coincides with a major exhibition at the Château de Versailles.”—Apollo Magazine (Apollo Magazine 2014-02-01)

“Sumptuous illustration is matched by excellent scholarship, covering everything from Le Notre’s origins and family connections, his knowledge of optics, his understanding of hydraulics and his taste in art, to the influence his gardening style had in Britain, Sweden and the Holy Roman Empire.”—Ian Thompson, Apollo Magazine (Ian Thompson Apollo Magazine 2014-03-01)

Won an Award for Excellence in the Biography category for the 2014 Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Literature Award. (Literature Award Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries 2014-04-11)

“[A] sumptuous volume. . . . Le Nôtre wrote no treatises and few letters, and this book aims at casting new light on him through a renewed analysis of the clues he left behind.”—New Yorker (New Yorker)

Winner of the 2015 J.B. Jackson Prize sponsored by the Foundation for Landscape Studies. (J.B. Jackson Foundation for Landscape Studies 2015-01-29)

Winner of the 2015 Philip Johnson Catalogue Award given by the Society of Architectural Historians. (Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award Society of Architectural Historians 2015-04-20)

About the Author

Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin is research associate, Centre de recherche du château de Versailles and Laboratoire de l’École d’Architecture de Versailles. Georges Farhat is associate professor at the University of Toronto and a founding member of the Laboratoire de l’École d’Architecture de Versailles.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Editions Hazan, Paris
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 4, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300199392
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300199390
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.8 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.5 x 1.5 x 12.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

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  • wendy p carroll
    5.0 out of 5 stars Timely delivery
    Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024
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    I love the book
    Actual drawings to view
    A real treat
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  • slimfeet
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2014
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    If you are doing research and need to know all about the wonderful garden designer Le Notre this is the book for you
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  • M. Rosin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Gorgeous Book Porn
    Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2014
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    For once a publisher isn't kidding when it calls a book "magnificent." Whoever put this together did so with great care. Pages and pages of gorgeous photos, drawings, and paintings of Notre's designs. Even the embossed cover is lovely. And to pay $52 for it seems like a steal. I really only bought this on a whim, having visited Versailles and become a bit of a Francophile. I'm not even that interested in gardening and I'm a terrible gardener myself so I'm not even sure why I bought this. But ... wow. It's nice to get a book in your hands and not feel like you've paid too much, but feel like it was worth every penny.
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  • Julie L
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book
    Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2014
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    Books like this are a must for any design library. Beautifully done. Having visited several of the parcs in the book, the details regarding mechanics of the gardens works are fascinating and will contribute to my enjoyment of parcs I have already seen in France and the ones I will see next.
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  • The Nanny
    1.0 out of 5 stars no good
    Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2014
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    no pictures which is what i think many would want to see at Versailles.
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  • Ned
    2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2014
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    Returned it
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  • EBD
    5.0 out of 5 stars The other reviews are right
    Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2014
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    This book is beautifully published. The illustrations are well chosen and beautifully printed. I can't believe I bought such a well crafted book at this price. The scholarship was great as well.
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  • M Brown
    4.0 out of 5 stars Ehhh nice, but just so so
    Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2014
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    Interesting, but so so.
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  • nwl
    4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, but. . .
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 14, 2014
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    Impressive, well put together, and at times even moving, the book includes some discussion of how and why the gardens of Le Notre were not just simple, rather boring, over-grand displays. But in some ways it is also frustrating and disappointing. Having read that he was singularly sensitive to difficult and asymmetrical sites, being able to accept their limitations to turn them into triumphs, with Chantilly and Sceaux mentioned in particular, I had hoped that such a comprehensive and major book would analyse a selection of his best work in some detail. But there is very little analysis at all, and what there is suffers from a lack of integration of the text and illustrations. For all the detailed discussion of the gardens of Versailles, both of the main vista and of certain elements, there is no map clearly identifying the features mentioned or discussed. Maybe there was only space for the briefest discussion of his work, but without his work there would be no point in producing the book. And the final section on his influence was often particularly unsatisfying - all too often it seemed to amount to little more than that this or that element of the classical French garden was incorporated in the different designs.
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  • Niamh Browne
    3.0 out of 5 stars but beautiful looking
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 15, 2014
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    The writing is a bit flowery and OTT, but beautiful looking book
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  • Implusebuyer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2016
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    Good for the coffee table
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