French Garden Style

by Georges Leveque

This guide to garden design provides the reader with a tour of more than 30 of France's most beautiful gardens. They range in size from enormous estates to tiny urban oases, showing the diversity of gardening styles that exists within France. Some subtly reflect their surroundings, others are geometric in plan; some show a strong English influence or are guided by color harmonies, while others simply exude their owners' love of cultivating plants...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812061578
• ISBN13: 9780812061574
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Faboulous French gardens

This is my favourite book on French gardens (and there are a few around). It's not full of classical palace parks like Versailles, Vaux-le-Vicomte etc, but private and smaller gardens. Villandry and Courances are the only great and famous included. But this offers you a better variation on the best of the French gardens. The chapters are not on regions as such, but on styles (that follows regions mostly however). Italian and English influences are present. Other styles are 'Natural' and 'Idyllic'. The photography is almost perfection. The printing is also extremely good. The short texts are somewhat lacking in information of species depicted so it's firstly a coffee-table book. I've browsed it at least a hundred times over the years and is still impressed with it.