Tag Archives: Andre Le Notre

the aesthetic extra: water in motion

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Dave

The original fountain was the brainchild of Philip Johnson, the timeless romantic image using the beguiling nonessential effect that water in architecture has always been. Water as the aesthetic extra; Before the Lincoln center fountain, Johnson had installed a 120-foot … Continue reading →

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spouts and surges

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Dave

Dripping gods and goddesses and fountains as royal status symbols… The principles of Andre Le Notre and Francois and Pierre de Francine were carried to England in 1712 in a curious and amusing book, The Theory and Practice of Gardening, … Continue reading →

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water worlds: the aqueous arts

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Dave

Water as the wine of architecture. Sparkling or still, its ability to enhance a building has been appreciated for centuries. Water is spirit to architecture’s substance; it is the wit and grace of a building; narcissistic sheets of silver for … Continue reading →

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cool cool water

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Dave

There is, perhaps no more solid , stable, and material art than architecture, and no more ethereal, evanescent, and volatile element than water. When the two combine, it is often for effects of singular magnificence and mystery. Water is spirit; … Continue reading →

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apollo rising

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Dave

The belief that paradise was up ahead, always just out of reach, had never wavered during the relentless rise of European secularism since the sixteenth century. From then until now, the tenacious grip of the symbolism of the paradise myth … Continue reading →

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how grows your garden: vegetable patch kids

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Dave

Andre Le Notre laid out many noble gardens which soon became world famous. Versailles in particular was envied by every prince in Europe. And in the century and more that followed, these royal gardens were copied all over the civilized … Continue reading →

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gardens of magnificence

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Dave

We have no idea what the Garden of Eden resembled. Painters have generally rendered it as a flowering green background to highlight Eve’s white nakedness. What we do know is that humanity from the start has delighted in gardens. In … Continue reading →

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more than plants looking for a home

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Dave

The great change in European gardens came with the Renaissance , that sudden astonishing growth of man’s spirit which carried him forward into the daylight of intellectual confidence. He is no longer comforted with the little shut-in plots that have … Continue reading →