DOMAINE DE CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DES JARDINS
2017 20 APRIL 05 NOVEMBER
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Page 5
I. 2017 EDITION - “FLOWER POWER” Page 7
II. GREEN CARDS GIVEN TO Page 9 Rebecca Louise-Law Alexis Tricoire Plantes et Cultures Jean-Philippe Weimer, “La serre lumineuse”
III. THE 2017 JURY Page 19 Coline Serreau, President of the 2017Jury Members of the 2017 Jury
IV. THE FESTIVAL GARDENS Page 23
V. NEW IN 2017 Page 47 The “Jardin de sous-bois” (Blois School of Landscaping / UNEP) The River of Pale Tulips The Promenade of Blue Irises / Baptism of a new clematis “Flower Power” photographs by Éric Sander “Flower Power” video by Luzia Simon
VI. THE PERMANENT GARDENS Page 55
VII. THE DOMAIN OF CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE Page 59 1. A multifaceted mission 2. A range of objectives 3. The Domaine’s leading actors 4. Diary for 2017
VIII. UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO RESPECT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Page 67
IX. PARTNERS / CERTIFICATIONS AND NETWORKS Page 71
X. USEFUL INFORMATION Page 79
XI. SELECTION OF VISUALS AVAILABLE FOR THE PRESS Page 83
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Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire receives over 400,000 visitors a year and has hosted the International Garden Festival since 1992. Renewing itself with each passing year, the event serves to reflect and provide an overview of current trends and changes in landscaping and garden creation. In 25 seasons, over 700 gardens have been created on the estate – prototypes of tomorrow’s green spaces, as the Festival acts as a nursery for talents bringing fresh ideas and an often out-of-kilter vision, and revitalising those “living artworks”, our gardens.
The diversity, creativity and quality of projects combining art, science, botany and poetry have helped establish the Festival’s reputation worldwide, making it an unmissable rendezvous for the presentation of works by landscapers, architects, designers, scenographers and gardeners of all ages and disciplines coming from all four corners of the world: Asia, Africa, across the Atlantic and, of course, Europe.
Inspired and inspiring, every year and with equal measures of humour and audaciousness, they offer us new ways of seeing, experiencing and creating gardens. They also invite us to respect our planet and live on it with poetry in our hearts. Chaumont-sur-Loire’s secret lies in tireless invention and reinvention.
Wide open to the world and its evolutions, garden observatory and laboratory alike, the International Garden Festival is celebrating its 26th birthday this year and invites us to discover the many powers that flowers possess, essential not only for their bewitching beauty but also for the key role they play in the survival of our species.
Chantal Colleu-Dumond Director, International Garden Festival
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I. 2017 EDITION : FLOWER POWER / LE POUVOIR DES FLEURS
In every age and civilisation since the dawn of time, in art and in literature, flowers real and figurative have played an essential role in the human imagination. There can be no-one who is unaware of their infinite variety, formal perfection, mystery and symbolic power. Their beauty, their scent, their brilliance, their colour and even their flavour bewitch the senses. As eternal as they are ephemeral, delicate and powerful alike, whether garden-grown or wild, flowers harbour the power to fascinate, to charm, to cure, and even to kill. And, not so long ago, didn’t people also hope that they had the power to “change the world, change our souls, change our hearts”? How will the 21st century’s gardens regard, use and make the utmost of the extraordinary and unfailing capacities, the incredible power of grace, that flowers command?
Radically new, contemporary and highly original scenographies, seeking to amaze, bewitch and conjure up dreams, finding fresh ways of combining flower varieties and making the utmost of them – this is what the 2017 edition’s designers have achieved, acting alongside nurseries of excellence to present a range of rare and truly outstanding blooms, their shapes as unexpected as their colours and their scents.
Drawing on the wellsprings of a resolutely present-day imagination and making use of all available technical possibilities, the 2017 edition will take you from discovery to discovery, from invention to invention. Passing from one garden to the next, you will come across unprecedented scenarios, mises en scène of hitherto unseen flowers brought together in the most unexpected fashions, playing on accumulation and surprises of every shape and size. Fantasy, luxuriousness, abundance and wonder will all be there to greet you, in the heart of audacious, innovative and dreamlike gardens.
“Every flower that opens, you might say opens my eyes. Inadvertently. Without there being any act of will on either side. By opening, it opens something else much more than itself. It’s sensing this that surprises you and brings you joy”. Philippe Jaccottet, “Aux liserons des champs” (To Field Bindweed Flowers)
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II. GREEN CARDS , Festival des Jardins, 2016 © Eric Sander , Festival Je reste
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REBECCA LOUISE-LAW A London-based artist who trained at Newcastle University’s School of Arts and Cultures in England, Rebecca Louise-Law has worked with natural materials for LE JARDIN PRÉSERVÉ 17 years, a practice that involves constant exploration of STABLES CANOPY the relationship between nature and humankind. Her work includes philosophical and spiritual aspects: each flower is selected for a particular reason. The copper wire she uses to fix them in place has become her trademark. Colours are chosen and organised with meticulous care. The artist has exhibited her installations in a wide variety of venues, from galleries to churches: her “The Flower Garden Display’d” project saw her suspending a total of 4,600 flowers from the vaulted ceiling of a church. Rebecca Louise-Law is known for the way she transforms space into colourful poetic universes by suspending “I like to capture and cherish small beautiful natural hundreds or even thousands of flowers within its confines. objects to create artworks that can be observed without Rebecca Louise Law’s sculptures exalt the beauty of the pressure of time. Preserving, appreciating, celebrating natural change. Her works evolve as nature takes its and sharing the beauty of the Earth with the world is what course, providing an alternative concept of beauty by motivates me”. Rebecca Louise-Law embracing preservation and deterioration alike. Rebecca Louise-Law works with fresh and dried flowers, “The power of Rebecca’s installations lies in their perpetual allowing the work to evolve naturally. Her installations transmutation. The living flowers move exquisitely through are designed to last indefinitely, with each component the natural stages of deterioration: they wilt, lose their attached individually, and bear witness to the changes of colour and dry. By leading visitors along this path of shape and colour produced as time goes by. deterioration, Rebecca extends the perceived limits of the beauty of flowers, imbuing them with an artistic value that makes them more than mere objects of decoration”. Amanda Krampf, Director of the Chandran Gallery
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ALEXIS TRICOIRE A leading light in the field of plant design, Alexis Tricoire Saint-Cloud Park, the Tuileries Garden and the Floralies in has spent the last ten years and more rethinking the role Nantes – as well in more permanent fashion in private and that living nature plays in our society. His work focuses public places alike: offices, shops, shopping centres and LA PLANÈTE EN ÉBULLITION on the study of a new form of urbanisation where the link railway stations where his creations add to the aesthetic FESTIVAL GARDENS with nature is restored by his approach as an artist and appeal and wellbeing of indoor and outdoor areas alike. designer. His studio Végétal Atmosphère was set up in 2009 and is a Well-known for the impact his multisensory technological true laboratory in which he and his team design vegetable mises-en-scène have on the public, he is regularly invited innovations intended to enhance the environment. He to design objects and monumental sculptures throughout has just been awarded the 2017 Janus “Espace de Vie” the world. He brings an innovative eye to each project, label for his “Botanic Twist” garden bench, produced by committed both to wellbeing in urban environments and TF Urban. protection of the planet. A garden/manifesto designed to evoke the urgent nature is preserved and where design and art try to bring problem of climate imbalance and raise awareness of innovative aesthetic and botanical solutions to nurture His creativity has been expressed through exhibitions future solutions for our planet’s wellbeing. our hopes. in such high-prestige public spaces as the Grand Palais during COP21, the National Museum of Natural History, It has become all too clear: with urbanisation given free the Ministry of the Environment, Château de Versailles, rein, the signs of climate imbalance are on the increase; Double page : global warming, rising waters, deforestation, waste and © Alexis Tricoire pollution are becoming part of our daily lives. Realising this, the global society is trying to turn the situation around via energy transition and inventing methods of soilless cultivation. This is a garden that plays with such notions, expressing them in poetic and symbolic fashion. From a pond topped by a central pontoon, visitors are invited to contemplate a scene in constant motion, revealing itself like a 360° panoramic painting. Turn and turn about, the pond’s seething surface and tidal effects evoke global warming and the rising seas. All around, a landscape composed of craters of arid red clayey earth harbours the last remains of a luxuriant tropical nature, calling to mind the soil erosion and forest fragmentation caused by deforestation. Iridescent metal spheres, “techno-planets” infiltrated by vegetation, are set randomly in arid little valleys between the craters and the water’s edge. As if by a mise en abîme of the “planet in danger” concept, they evoke our ability to construct a world where untamed
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LA FRENCH FINE FLEUR
JARDIN PLURIEL ET SINGULIER JARDIN DE PLANTES ET CULTURES FESTIVAL GARDENS
“On a cobbled flight of steps, the newly arrived meet the “We are nurserypeople. By joining forces, we pool our wonderstruck eyes of those on their way out. A sunbathed skills and, beyond that, our desire to share our passion. pathway, flowers standing tall, colours, fragrances from Our nurseries reflect the diversity we promote, whether top to bottom and bottom to top. Such is our wish. Two by their specialities, size, economic importance, or or more seated beneath the birds’ nests, eyes raised only plant production and reproduction methods. Diverse to lower once more to share the garden.” La French Fine but also and above all united with one another in order Fleur to perpetuate our professions, share experience, and preserve, enrich and pass on that marvellous vegetable “Perceiving colour through the slender aerial foliage of a heritage of which we are the ever-watchful mediators.” Chusquea mimosa ‘Australis’ bamboo plant, and making your way into the very heart of our garden… Our collective’s La French Fine Fleur: Arom’Antique, Aromaticulture, full vegetable diversity is on show there, colourful, opulent, Créa’Paysage, Ets Horticoles du Cannebeth, Lumen intelligent and tangible. The eye travels from the wealth of Plantes Vivaces, Ets Pierre Turc – Turcie or, Flos Sabaudiae, ground-cover to the effusive denizens up above, stops on Jardin d’Adoué La Canopée, Le Jardin d’Eau, Lepage Bord a perennial, the white of a petal, and is lost in admiration de Mer, Lepage Val de Loire, Le monde des Agrumes, Les of Romneya coulteri’s delicate foliage: a transcendent Murets du Causse, Les Senteurs du Quercy, Pépinières journey into a bouquet of shared wonders. A time to look des Laurains, Pépinière Travers and Sempervivum et Cie. anew at the flora that surrounds us, to finally see it not simply as decoration, but as a partner in humankind’s history, essential to its future. We nurserypeople, flowers in hand, have the presumption to set about changing the world.”
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JEAN-PHILIPPE WEIMER Self-portrait “I’m self-taught, strong-willed and cheerful. Light is my conviction. LE PRINTEMPS TOUT LE TEMPS I nourish my creative work with all my predilections. I It has always warmed, protected, reassured and united TROPICAL GREENHOUSE love light, trees, light filtering through trees, the sun, the humankind. moon, night, nature, audacity, intuitive intelligence, good It generates a climate of peace. food, encounters, challenges, poetry, photography, the It is both ephemeral and eternal. It connects to the cycles wild and the future. of life. It is as necessary to humankind as beauty.” I take great pride in simple things. Jean-Philippe Weimer
I made the firm decision to work with local master craftspeople. Such partnerships enrich my imagination, Creator of unique poetic pieces perfectly suited to the my life as a human being and as a creator. They let genius loci of the sites he occupies, Jean-Philippe me start new chapters in the story of my journey as a Weimer invents subtly luminous works and highly original designer. They’re precious encounters that introduce me scenographies. to irreplaceable materials and knowhow. Touching iron, The Farmyard’s imposing tropical greenhouse will be glass, bronze, terracotta, ceramics and wood brings me acting as a venue for his delicate blue flowers. to an understanding of them. And to a creation of poetic associations that will simultaneously emphasise their “Paying tribute to nature is the departure point for all my characteristics, light and the fabric of night. creations. Each highlighting of one of its aspects is an All my creations are manufactured exclusively in France, adventure that begins in my first solitary steps towards by women and men whose knowledge would elsewhere be a meeting with the soul of a garden. Its personality, its seen as a treasure beyond price. For me, it ensures quality expectations. The magic starts there. and expresses a philosophical and political stance. “Le Printemps Tout le Temps” (Springtime all the Time) in Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire’s greenhouses is I’ve a real taste for listening. Dialoguing with a sponsor is a a call to stand in wonder and so to grow up. Again and special pleasure. I’m keen to find out what he wants while once again. To reconnect within an inner space where the widening his vision at the same time, and then I take him spirit of fantasy enables constructive reflection. Where the to have a look at my work in progress. Each rendezvous familiar is called into question and can never be thought is a fascinating discovery. Respect, innovation, creativity of as commonplace. Especially when it’s threatened with and discussion lay the groundwork for a successfully obliteration. completed creation which has its roots in human How do we keep close the complicity of flowers? Close to relationships. us, to humanity? Between the oversized flowers I’ve designed out of memories of tales told, and the therapeutic flowers, nurturing and free, united with the future, there exists an ode to life.” Jean-Philippe Weimer
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III. THE JURY Château vu depuis le Festival des Jardins © C. Diaz © des Jardins Château vu depuis le Festival
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COLINE SERREAU THE 2017 JURY
PRESIDENT OF THE 2017 JURY
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Coline Serreau is a French actress, filmmaker, screenwriter She has also acted in numerous theatre productions, self- Coline SERREAU, President of the jury and composer. She was born in Paris on 29 October 1947 penned and otherwise, including “Lapin Lapin”, “Quisaitout Chantal COLLEU-DUMOND, Director of the Domaine and International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire and grew up in an artistic world, her mother being a writer et Grobêta” (awarded five Molières), “Le Salon d’été” and Olivier BEDOUELLE, Member of the UNEP National Office – landscape businesses and her father a theatre director. She studied literature, a French version of Bertolt Brecht’s “Caucasian Chalk Bénédicte BOUDASSOU, Journalist enrolled at the Conservatory of Music and was a student at Circle”. In 2006, she played Arnolphe in Molière’s “L’École Richard CAYEUX, Iris breeder the National Circus School. In 1969, she joined the Comédie des femmes”, a play that she directed at the Théâtre de Marc CLARAMUNT, Director of the Blois School of Landscape Française as a trainee, but later decided to focus on writing la Madeleine. She has also directed Rossini’s “Barber of Soazig DEFAULT, Journalist-landscape architect cinema and theatre scenarios. Seville” and Johann Strauss II’s “Die Fledermaus” at the Ariane DELILEZ, Secretary-General of the French Landscape Federation Opéra Bastille. Jean-Marc DIMANCHE, Artistic consultant She directed her first film in 1975, going on to enjoy major She has composed the music for several of her films and Hélène and Patrice FUSTIER, Founders of the Journées des Plantes de Courson critical success in 1977 with her second film “Pourquoi conducts the Chorale du Delta. Michèle GUILLOT, President of the UNEP Centre Limousin Region (UNEP, National Office – landscape businesses) pas!”, about a “marriage à trois” made up of two men living Jean-Pierre LE DANTEC, Historian, writer, engineer and former director of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris - La Villette together and their shared girlfriend, and starring Sami Frey, Sylvie LIGNY, Journalist Mario Gonzales and Christine Murillo. “Trois hommes et un Dominique MASSON, Consultant for gardens and landscape at the Centre Region Directorate for Cultural Affairs couffin” was released in 1985. With over 12 million tickets Patrick MIOULANE, Gardening columnist sold, it ranks as one of the highest-grossing French films Didier WILLERY, Author, editorial manager, journalist and botanical consultant ever. She followed it up with “Romuald et Juliette”, “La Crise” Bernard CHAPUIS, Landscape architect, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire (César for best screenplay), “La Belle Verte”, “Chaos”, “18 ans après”, “Saint-Jacques… La Mecque” and “Solutions locales pour un désordre global” in 2010, “Tout est permis” in 2013, “Couleur locale” in 2013 and “Pierre Brossolette” in 2015. In 1991, between two full-length films, she also directed a sequence incorporated into the film “Contre l’oubli” and devoted to a couple imprisoned in Malawi, Vera Chirwa and her husband. Le jury 2017 © DR
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IV. THE FESTIVAL GARDENS , Jean-Claude Ellena, Festival des Jardins, 2016 © Eric Sander du Parfumeur , Jean-Claude Ellena, Festival jardin Le Château vu depuis le Festival des Jardins © C. Diaz © des Jardins Château vu depuis le Festival
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DE L'AUTRE CÔTÉ DU MIROIR LE BOUQUET D'APRÈS
Nicolas STADLER, designer, Alexandra JANSEN, garden designer, Alice STADLER, interior architect and Vero REATO, sculptress and painter, Thierry GIRAULT, landscaper Carlos ESTEVES DUARTE, State-registered (DPLG) architect, FRANCE Bruno JANSEN, site supervisor, and Michel GRIMMER, sculptor LUXEMBOURG / FRANCE / GERMANY
Playing on contrasts, this garden first of all invites visitors In a world and an era where ever-faster is the order of the “As soon as the idea of the Deluge had subsided, the possibility of resurrection. Its flowers burst forth like the to explore a uniformly green world before leading them to day and where nobody takes the time to “simply to do A hare stopped in the clover and swaying flowerbells, and accomplishment of a quest where the Grail is not a cup but a contemplate a scene that comes as a real surprise. nothing”, this garden seeks to remind the world that it is said a prayer to the rainbow through the spider’s web. bouquet! Almost a last bouquet to the Flood that has passed. Oh! the precious stones that began to hide and the flowers The ground’s smooth surface highlights the reawakening of A narrow pathway, reminiscent of wet undergrowth bursting good to stop, to bide a while and contemplate the nature that already looked around.” Arthur Rimbaud, “After the Flood” nature, of the moss that has taken over the emptinesses left with plant life, takes visitors onwards, brushing past fern that surrounds us, greater by far than humankind and to by the quake’s upheavals, of the ferns reaching their fronds fronds in discovery of an unexpected treasure: a field filled be preserved at all costs. Illusions are at play here too, If it ever happened that a place, an era, or a time was towards the sun, of the clumps of moss scattered with little with flowers and colours as far as the eye can see. extraordinary mirrors that serve to intensify the experience, overcome by flood, then it was here, in this garden, that the white spots, like flowers without roots. All of a sudden, the garden becomes magical, transforming as, overwhelmed by colours, visitors stop and contemplate meeting of plants and flowers took place. And then, the ground buckles, the column cracks, the roots into a sea of colours enticing visitors to lie back and dream, this wealth of nature hidden away and preserved in its Awkward or unlucky, all plants do their utmost to accomplish have resisted so long, hidden away beneath the concrete their work; all have the magnificent ambition of invading and paving… and the bouquet bursts forth! Clutching at the steel to laze the day away. secret setting. conquering the earth. framework, the flowers spill over it. Wisteria, morning glories Enclosed in and chained to the soil, their roots will resort to and black-eyed-susans have taken on the colours of their trickery, to combinations that the newly returned seasons will existence to reveal themselves as survivors, to be smelled, help them achieve. looked at and touched. This garden presents us with rebirth and renewal, suggesting It only remains for us to feel the power of flowers!
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LE POUVOIR DES SORCIÈRES LA FLEUR DU MAL
Sung Hye PARK, landscape architect, and Lynda HARRIS, landscaper, Byung-Eun DE GAULEJAC, project manager Nathan CROUZET, urban architect, and KOREA / FRANCE Arthur-Louis IGNORÉ (Ali), urban artist FRANCE
It was in the 17th century that humankind first began Time and place are of no importance, as this village has self-surrender and the disappearance of a community. turning itself into a geological force capable of changing always existed. Making good use of the power over earth Lack of reflection on the effects of such flowers unleashes the way the planet operates and destroying its fauna and and plants that the gods granted to the men and women the evil in humanity. who lived in such places, working and travelling together. The village is laid out around a spreading birch tree with flora. This break with its past saw the start of a predatory Their journey is neither in time nor space. Their journey white bark and silver leaves, around the central garden into relationship with nature and attempts to control the separates their bodies from their thoughts. which the luxuriant vegetation of four peripheral gardens environment, and women along with it: exclusion from Stretched calmly out on wooden beds, looking up at the sky, spills, and around a courtyard paved with stales. It is the world of work (whereas women worked in the Middle it appears that the “Fleur du Mal”, (the Flower of Evil), is the composed of four lodges open on one side and housing Ages), confinement to domestic and reproductive duties, only good in life. The villagers have disappeared. Any last the opium beds. Printed on canvases stretched across destruction of their age-old powers and knowledge, above traces of their delirium may only be seen on the shattered their perforated roofs, the “Fleur du Mal” appears and ceilings of the shacks where they sought escape. disappears under visitors’ eyes in a rhythm imposed by the all with regard to medicines and therefore connected This cloistered, intimate inner landscape draws visitors sun’s rays. The four different gardens display the power of with plants, flowers and medicinal herbs. Witches into an area they are not a priori invited to enter. Opening plants in all their diversity: neurological and physiological are resistance fighters, perpetuating a benevolent its doors onto a forbidden spot, the garden is the open- stimulants, drugs soft and hard. The gardens are designed relationship with nature and making good use of the air stage for a possible immersive experience in human as variations on the five states experienced by addicts: power of flowers. Borne by the ethics of a new relationship reality, sublime and illusory, bleak yet filled with light. Shut relief, culture, hallucination, delirium and abandon. with nature and a wave of feminist energy, witches off from the world, it takes the use of drugs as its theme, make their appearance in the “Le pouvoir des sorcières” garden, as mediators between humankind and nature. At Chaumont-sur-Loire, they create a medicinal ornamental garden harbouring an assortment of incredible curative flowers. Sexism has been banished from this natural pharmacopeia and visitors reconnect with nature in contemplation and encounter. A patchwork of flowers with hues ranging from red to purple to black symbolises women’s blood and their rediscovered powers.
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INSPIRATION LES COULISSES DE
Anne MARLANGEON, visual artist, and L'ATTRACTION Michel LOPEZ, landscape engineer FRANCE Adrien OHLMANN, gardener/designer, and Audrey VOLPELIER, park and garden designer FRANCE
Many are the painters who have set up their studios in the looking through each frame that they come to understand what Dès l’entrée du jardin, le visiteur est partie prenante Dans l’esprit des patios arabo-andalous, le bassin devient midst of their gardens, for flowers are a source of inspiration for the beflowered plant life is offering them: masterpieces! du dispositif. Il observe, au travers d’un cadrage une figure structurante du jardin et procure une atmosphère artists, who give their beauty fresh expression. Vincent has left his vase of sunflowers lying around. Claude is photographique, la mise en scène d’une collection florale apaisante, propice à la réflexion. “Inspiration…” is therefore a garden that combines art with at the edge of the pond waiting for the waterlilies to flower. And à l’allure majestueuse et hors de portée. Trois espèces C’est dans ce contraste d’une conception architecturée flowers. “Douanier” Rousseau is dreaming of tigers prowling his flowery végétales paradent sous les feux des projecteurs, fières dialoguant avec un monde sauvage, que les concepteurs Visitors enter it via the studio, where everything tells of exuberant jungle… de leur pouvoir de séduction. À la manière d’un défilé, ces ont voulu exprimer une harmonie, empruntée de l’art des creativity: canvas and brushes still lie on a paint-spattered Seven famous paintings are called to mind by means of planted- précieuses essences émergent d’un miroir d’eau. Les jardins. Cette rencontre sublime l’élégance et la puissance table. They make their way through a flower-decked arbour and out areas visible through the empty frames. reflets démultiplient l’espace et exposent, au fil des saisons, vitale de chaque fleur, mais aussi la fragilité et le caractère come upon the garden itself: the interaction between artist, The garden is evocative of works where the artistic l’illusion d’une esthétique permanente. éphémère des floraisons. studio and garden is clear for all to see. An easel bearing a virgin interpretation of the flower-filled landscape is left to visitors: Une ambiance à l’aspect plus naturel et spontané se Le jardin des "Coulisses de l’attraction" est une invitation à se canvas is waiting on the terrace. The painter has gone out for a the mist spreading across the pond reflects the impressionists’ découvre en pénétrant dans les coulisses du jardin. Les questionner sur le pouvoir de séduction et des apparences. few moments and the place is free. quest to capture the invisible. The jungle with its outsize flowers fleurs s’épanouissent librement dans des alcôves. Les C’est dans une certaine volupté que s’harmonise la Set in various positions along the terrace, seven empty evokes the infancy of art and naïve painting. The tip of the hat massifs ondulants, légers et vaporeux immergent le confrontation d’un monde sophistiqué, insaisissable, avec frames play with the garden’s perspective and lead visitors to to modern art gives a kick in the pants to academic art… With promeneur dans un spectacle enchanteur, envoûté de celui d’un univers délicat, aux associations végétales appropriate fragments of landscape for themselves. And it is by these flowers, everything is art! parfums et surpris par la multitude des inflorescences. subtiles.
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TÊTE-À-TÊTE PAPILLONNEZ
Anna RHODES, landscape architect Cyril SERVETTAZ, State-registered (DPLG) landscaper, and GREAT-BRITAIN Hannes HEUCKE, landscaper FRANCE / GERMANY
“There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to cause the garden to evolve with the passing seasons. This garden provides an adaptation and spatial rendition including daisies, dahlias and mint, are mentioned in the look.” Matisse This perspective raises the flowers’ status, bringing of “The Butterfly”, a tale by the Danish poet Hans Christian story. Others have been added at our initiative, specially fresh awareness of their shapes, textures, colours, Andersen (1805-1875) that perfectly illustrates one of selected for their beauty, special characteristics and the A “Tête-à-tête” invitation to fresh ways of looking. Visitors particularities and existence, and is conducive to the aspects of the power exercised by flowers: that of attraction they hold for butterflies: buddleias, knapweed are encouraged to open themselves up to another way meditation. Horizontal and vertical lines run across the charming by their beauty, whether those charmed are and scabiouses! These sweet-smelling nectariferous of seeing, make the utmost of a new experience, and flowerbeds. Confronted with plants as high as themselves, butterflies or human beings! flowers, much appreciated by butterflies and humans appreciate flowers via physical immersion. visitors are drawn to reflect, recharge their vital energies The butterfly flits from flower to flower looking for his alike, also attract nectar-gathering insects such as bees. The design is double-faceted, providing visitors with and rethink the natural order of things. bride-to-be, finding qualities in each of them but finding Such impromptu visitors will bring further subtle, light and individual or sensorial and social experiences. Subtle This new fashion of seeing a garden and the tête-à- mosses, ferns and pockets of delicate flowers take on the tête confrontation it involves enable the powers that fault with them too. Getting in a bit of a flutter, you might passing touches of colour to this garden of monochrome aspect of wooded regions, reproducing their successive flowers possess to revitalise the body, the senses and say! In this garden, visitors are as giddy as the butterfly. flowers. It contains white flowers only, in order to highlight growth. In contrast, the centrepiece is a botanical tableau: the mind. This is a sensorial garden where visitors must They go from one flower to the next without being able their diversity in each tiny detail, shapes, petals and a mass of flowers, their individual qualities dominating, be in harmony with the moment. Greater awareness of to decide which is the most beautiful. Several islets of pistils alike, contrasting with the green of their leaves. vying with one another to attract attention. colours, fragrances and the rhythms of sound can only plants of various shapes and sizes compose a bouquet So dear visitors – Flutter away! Visitors are invited to view the garden from below, where help improve our ways of thinking. containing a wide variety of species, some of which, the field of vision and vegetable palette evolve and
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À LA RECHERCHE DU LUPIN BLANC L'AGORA
Benjamin HENNO, landscaper and farmer, Karine HAUDRECHY and JustineCREUGNY , scenographic architect, Johanès MONTAGNE, State-registered (DPLG) landscapers, Clémence MAUTOUCHET, urban architect, and Lucile HAMOIGNON, urban engineer and designer, and Clémence NOURY, landscape architect Chen-Yu , landscape engineer ZHOU FRANCE BELGIUM / FRANCE / CHINA
This garden is a tip of the hat to Lewis Carroll’s stories, Once the show is over, visitors continue onwards, making 1967. Demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam A dense luxuriant mass, intense, standing tall, rallying leading visitors into an unsuspected out-of-the-ordinary their way into the wings. war. together to resist. To stand firm against climate imbalance world of unexpected vegetable scenes. The journey ends with a gentle return, back up to the real A pacifist libertarian struggle; its slogan, “Flower Power”. and the eradication of liberties, against wars and poverty. The garden may be thought of as a kind of theatre, world. The flowerbeds alongside the ramps are composed Action against deprivation of liberty. This hybrid collective, half plant half human, is united and its foyer imbued with an otherworldly aural and visual of plants and flowers that make use of the mechanisms One weapon: flowers. ready to march forward. atmosphere. A tunnel shrinks visitors like so many Alices, evoked by the machinery. Onwards then, into the amphitheatre, all of us seated on down to the size of the flowers surrounding them. They The garden closes up behind visitors as they leave, slowly 2017. Fifty years later. the same tiers to speak and debate. With our bulbs, with our can perch themselves awhile on the tiers provided and coming out of a waking dream, in search of the white Struggles in search of democracy; slogans chanted in hearts. Each of us free to settle back and appropriate our take in an extraordinary vegetable tableau in which lupin… public places. surroundings. Speak, shout, sing – for your companions or machinery turns above the greenery in playful illustration Acts of occupation and appropriation. for the plants seated at your side. The debate is open, the of the ingenuity hidden behind the beauty of flowers. One weapon: words. agora resonates along with you. And if you so wish, take to the stage. Say what you have Welcome visitors all, please come in. Come in and join this to say, about everyday things or matters extraordinary. demonstration, where trees, shrubs and flowers stand Leaves and demonstrators gesticulate together. Protect alongside you to resist. A crowd gathered together, borne your right to communicate, your right to grow, in freedom! on our roots or our feet, beneath the shade of a canopy.
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ÉTERNELLES ÉPHÉMÈRES L'HOMME QUI AIMAIT LES FLEURS
Emeline BROSSARD, State-registered (DPLG) landscaper, and Jeanne MARTIN, Coralie MICHEL, Julien MAGNAN, Lucie BULOT, architect accredited to exercise her profession Franck MASANELL, and Guillaume NOUVELLON, students in her own name (HMONP) AGROCAMPUS OUEST FRANCE FRANCE
Flowers are beauties on the decline, always wilting, always with mineral flowers. Flowers that keep their beauty forever Imagine a man with an iron will and infinite power, filled Massive, solid, cold and spare, the blocks made perfect escaping us. They are a metaphor for the impermanence of for they have been ground in the mill of the poet’s mind, with ideals, dreams and desires, a being capable of pedestals for his flowers. A seasoned collector, he took all phenomena and the fragility of living beings. This garden flowers without roots, which have only what the painter changing everything and adapting it to his wishes. the greatest care in lining them up in rows and columns attempts to provide access to the essential meaning would have them keep of their essence in a painting. This being had a special dream all of his own: a lover of and had a protective wall built around them. Satisfied, he of things, to the elusive beauty of geographic realities, Although ephemeral, the Little Prince’s rose on its own flowers, he wished their preservation above all things. proclaimed himself King of Flowers. and do so in the image of Saint-Exupéry’s Little Prince: by was worth more than all the lasting realities known to the Those flowers, his flowers, whose countless colours and Not long afterwards, the man passed away and his experiencing the ephemerality of flowers and making every geographer, for it was she whom he had taken to his heart. shapes made him ever happier, ever more wonderstruck body turned back into earth. It brought forth a flower, effort to capture their essence before they disappear, we are Passing, fugitive realities are essential to our existence, by their eternal regeneration and ever more joyful at their whose seeds made their way into the gaps between the trying to crystallise their power, their splendour, their scent, for they alone give it meaning. What are of importance extraordinary adaptability, had become an obsession. blocks. The seedlings’ roots fractured the rock and in a their colour. are not seas, cities and landscapes, but the rich, deeply And each individual, every living thing was a threat to stupendous explosion of shapes and colours, the flowers A garden abrim with grasses and perennial plants, aflame felt relationships we forge between those seas, cities and their purity and integrity. were freed from their grip. with multiple inflorescences, dried flowers, flowers in flight landscapes and ourselves. We are brought to confront our A man of strong character and great powers of persuasion, The man had forgotten the essential fact: they may be and seeds sown, leads visitors onwards, into the ineluctable relationship with the living, and that is the real power of he brought his fellows together to make his dream a fragile, puny and ephemeral, but flowers are made to be passage of time. This immersive experience, taking them flowers. reality. With their help, he assembled all the flowers in the shared and to evolve. into the very heart of the ephemeral, leads to a clearing filled world and imprisoned them within great blocks of stone.
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APIS VERTIGO LE TRÔNE DE FLEURS SUMMER IS COMING Albane POIRIER-CLERC, Hermine DE CHAVANES, and JulietteGUÉNARD , landscape engineers Thibault ADAM, landscape designer and gardener, FRANCE Yoann MOLARD-AUCLAIR, gardener and landscape designer, and Rémi BOUTIN, set designer and cabinetmaker FRANCE
Flowers are such seductive beings, attracting, subjugating ingenuity of flowers. This project provides a fanciful experience reinterpreting ascend the throne! and intoxicating… their many charms and characteristics There are cracks here and there in the mass of cold rock. The the world of the “Game of Thrones” series. The Throne The pathway floats above the rock garden, a reconciliation holding you captive. first signs of oncoming vegetable proliferation emerge from garden puts “Flower Power” centre stage in a playful of the wild and the cultivated, guarantee of a powerful Soft and flexible, they adorn themselves in the most brilliant them. setting where anybody and everybody may become king garden, whose self-sufficiency ensures its sustainability. colours and exhilarating fragrances. Little by little, visitors make their way deeper into this gaping or queen. Plants offer up their exuberant pink, mauve, white and Leathery and colourless, they make themselves invisible, fault, the aura of a rich canopy in the distance drawing them The garden is a kingdom that welcomes seasoned yellow flowers, emerging here and there, alone or grouped insipid, even repellent, but their nectar, so very appetising, onwards. In this incised cavity, the grey dry rocky desert, and budding gardeners alike, inviting them to make a together, from a mineral surfacing of pebbles. charms even the most cunning. abristle with thistles, gives way to vegetable luxuriance. colourfully sensuous journey to the throne itself, whose After climbing two steps announcing that “Summer is In this garden’s silvery landscape, pallid barbed plants take Nestled in the hollow of this floral antechamber, visitors are ascension symbolises the sharing of power between flower coming”, visitors approach the Throne of Flowers, which up residence on grey rocks. ‘Carlina Acaulis’ is among them, snatched up, transported by such exuberant generosity. and gardener. bristles with a multitude of tools recalling the “heroic playing a deceptive double game. When rain threatens, Here, in this melliferous cocoon, they abandon themselves to Visitors make their way up a coloured wooden walkway, deeds” of gardeners. its sharp silver petals draw together into a grey capitulum scents and colours. In all their diversity and originality, plants skirt the flower-emblazoned banners and take in the Comfortably seated on the Throne of Flowers, the King and protecting it from aggression and the coming downpour submerge us as the seasons will, closing over our heads, garden at a single glance. There, the Throne of Flowers, a Queen of the moment need do no more than admire and while, within, its huge heart overflows with pollen and gradually obliterating any rapport with the outside world. sculptural evocation of the famous “Iron Throne”, beckons delight in the rock garden’s harmonious elegance. irresistible nectar. Visitors and bees live together for the duration of a festival, visitors along the pathway to the platform… perhaps to “Apis Vertigo” intrigues, an experience as uplifting as it is giddy with “Apis Vertigo”. misleading, paying tribute to the wondrously seductive
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LES BELLES AUX EAUX AU PIED DU MUR
DORMANTES Léa LAMERRE, development officer, Vincent LAHACHE, State-registered (DPLG) landscaper, Sylvestre LIEUTIER, landscape architect Henry FLOUZAT and Clara LAMERRE, Special School of Architecture graduates, and FRANCE Elisabeth CROMBECQUE, teacher and graduate in garden design FRANCE
The beautiful sleeping waters are bewitching muses who The garden becomes both a metaphor for an unlikely love Fragility, ephemerality, fragrance and grace – therein lies But who is the actor? Where is the audience? Does it mean draw on the strange powers possessed by roses. Roses are tryst between roses and wetland vegetation; a lacy relief of the great power of flowers. They remind us of the brevity that our destinies are tied to the poetic flower? queens, they exhale their perfumes, but they’re everywhere! torn-down, broken rushes from which the flowers emerge, of life. This garden, a play in 3 acts, presents the common The garden bears witness to this shared condition. It And the muses aim to bewitch them once again, or, if they’re true objects of desire; metaphor for a harmless flower essence that humankind shares with them. An ode to is structured in accordance with the rules governing already bewitched, exalt them yet further, fashion them in that seems to possess all possible powers. A flower that fragility in the guise of power. Japanese bouquets. Three masses: eucalyptus their image, intensify their power through a new vegetable oversees a silent celebration and which makes all dreams Act 1: Visitors stand facing a wall composed of packets of (sky), rosebush (humanity) and magnolia (earth), two association. possible. seeds, giving promise of wondrous flower-filled gardens, evergreens for eternity and the rose testifying to human Each rosebush is poised on an unobtrusive pedestal and Roses in copses confronted by clusters of reeds, roses of future generations. The wall, at the foot of which talent. A wave of blue makes its way between the three the roses themselves seem to rise up out of black waters. growing among scatterings of sweetgrass, roses in the society stands today, also speaks of how seeds “belong” components, crossing the scented white flowers and Confronted with green and brown arrays of rushes and foreground, set before a fringe of sagittaria, and roses to gardeners, to those who wish to stay connected with their abundant foliage. reeds, their myriad-coloured inflorescences waft anyone standing alone on the surface of open waters spangled with the living, perpetuate the mastery of sowing and preserve Act 3: Upon their return, visitors find a place on the wall who glimpses them away on a dreamlike journey where the waterlilies – all provide their own special ambiences. Roses biodiversity. to continue the exchange and express themselves freely. rosebushes are set on marshland waters. that pose for the photographer, the voyeur, the dreamer or Act 2: Bypassing the wall, they come upon the stage Ever attentive to the voices of flowers, the gardener In such a context, the roses’ powers in the arts of seduction the muses. itself: a floor they can sit on to contemplate the landscape weaves the conditions for a common future... and love become infinite. before them and listen to the messages the flowers send.
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LES FLEURS PRENNENT PHOENIX LE POUVOIR Nicolas ORGELET, landscaper, Pierre BOISSENIN, architect, and Colombe PERRIN, Erell PENCREAC’H and Richard STOEBIENIA, sculptor Rozanne MORAUX, landscape designers FRANCE FRANCE
This garden, “The Flowers Seize Power”, questions our as we pass them by with growing unease. Only a few openings Every summer, landscapes and the life they harbour are over past disasters with their colours, and nature comes relationship to the life that bursts forth once more after chaos offer glimmers of hope of a possible “afterwards”. reduced to ashes. Such was the case in Marseille last into her own once more. has run its course. And then, all of a sudden, we find ourselves in an open space summer, for example. Fortunately, nature possesses This garden is a pared-down evocation of this cycle. At the Emblems of freedom, glimmers of hope, flowers represent the filled with blinding light: we are in the midst of a profusion of a remarkable gift of resilience, making it capable of crossroads of three disciplines, the result is a sculpted, power of resurgence and resilience. They carry within them the flowers, springing forth and towering over us. regaining a dynamic state of balance even after having architectured micro-landscape of wood and earth that surge of life, which withstands everything and cannot be held Life spreads its wings, bearer of peace, contentment and colour. suffered the worst external attacks. After a fire, the seeds germinating flowers will fill as nature dictates. The scene back despite the blackest of times. The traces of past conflicts (ruined walls, burnt trees, abandoned are still there, patiently awaiting the right time to sprout. showcases the power of flowers, which breathe life back The garden provides a pathway from despair to rebirth, from artefacts left to rust) are gradually engulfed. Flowers insinuate One fine day, spring returns and the power of flowers into landscapes in ashes, and so illustrates the endless shadow to light, with the underlying memory of the flowered themselves between the stones, overflow onto the cobbles, hide brings life back once more, raised from its ashes. Little cycle of death and life, flowerings upon flowerings, year banners of contemporary conflicts (the poppy and cornflower of an old trench, burst free of ditches, climb up roofs and leap from by little, bindweed, mullein, poppy, blueweed, thistle, upon year. It brings a message of peace and hope in the the Great War, for instance) and popular resistance movements one flowerbed to another. charlock and many other ruderal and pioneer plants write face of aggression and aggressors. In the face of death (the Carnation Revolution, the Jasmine Revolution, and so on). The flowers seize power in all their diversity, profusion and themselves onto the black page of a landscape of burnt and desolation, life reclaims and will always reclaim its Entering the garden, we are immersed in an atmosphere of intensity. They represent a dignified, upstanding people that has woodland. Time passes and the flowers delicately cover rights and freedoms. gloom and chaos. Flowers are low, sombre-hued and resistant regained its freedom, here where life is still so frail and ephemeral.
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LEVANT MONOCHROME BLANC WHITE COLOR Tian TIAN, State-registered (DPLG) landscaper and Di WANG, freelance writer and professor of history Eugenio BECCARI, Barbara DI COLANTONIO, Eufemia IANNACE, CristinaISTOC , Sandra LIEBE, Gianluca PIERAN, Samuel SARDI, Giulia TASSELLI, ChristianVILLA MARCELLO, students, CHINA Lorenza BARTOLAZZI, Cristiana COSTANZO, Fabio MANFREDI, Simone SANTE et Aurelio VALENTINI, teachers QUASAR DESIGN UNIVERSITY ITALY
A dreary monsoon makes its way from the world’s most symbolise a people’s revolution that swept the Arab world “Flower Power” expresses the conviction that flowers luminous point. coveted metropolis and caresses a farm girl’s sunburnt face. and whose repercussions continue to be felt across the possess hidden properties that can alter perceptions. The But when visitors turn back, to their surprise, there before The wind of globalisation breathes the most sophisticated whole planet. In a more distant past, it left its mark on the hippies understood that flowers had beneficial powers, them is a whole other world, revealing itself in a multitude melody of uninspired arts into her body. The strange world through the cultivation of tea: nature’s little diplomats, and laid the foundations of modern ecology thereby. The of colours. A wonderful luxuriant garden, voluptuous and conversation of a ballerina and a farm girl takes place in the the perfumed leaves of the jasmine plant delivered scent senses can be deceived and, by a play of correspondences, audacious in its design, lies before them. A baroque, theatrical setting that delights, fascinates and enchants. Levant Garden’s peaceful setting. and savour from East to West. create illusions so convincing they may be mistaken for reality. Here, space is expanded. The garden’s maker has become Spatial characteristics inspired by Zoroastrian elements – Waterlilies, lotuses and thalia grow ever higher, directing “Monochrome Blanc” is a garden made up of various a virtuoso, creating a dazzling series of set-pieces. earth, water, sky and plants – are rearranged into agricultural visitors’ gaze skywards. The garden undergoes a step- species of white flowers, a multitude of different shapes Each vegetable partition is a chromatic profusion of patterns similar to those conditioning the daily routine by-step transformation, from an impressive collection and scents. It is a monochrome garden, soothing, pure, flowers and leaves – yellow, orange, red, mauve, blue of women working in the green monotony of their fields. of jasmine in the foreground to a shimmering tableau of refined and dreamlike... It is a succession of vegetable and green. With each step they take, visitors come upon Their scattered cries of frustration and their aspirations are aquatic plants in the background, where the mind’s disquiet walls, white partitions all the same height, which expand different shades, varied surfaces, smooth, brilliant or matt. reincarnated here in the form of jasmine flowers. In recent is soothed away in contemplation of the power of flowers. and contract space, disconcerting visitors and spurring The noblest of species mix with the most humble and all of collective memory, these little white flowers have come to them on towards the vanishing point. And at the centre of them, together, intoxicate the senses. this play of perspectives is a mirror, a reflection, a colour, a
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PUISSANTES IMMOBILES
Nicolas FILLON, landscape craftsman and Marylise FILLON, State-registered (DPLG) landscaper FRANCE
Plants are immobile, necessarily anchored in the soil. Their It is this particular aspect of flower power that the garden roots condemn them to absolute sedentariness. Given such helps visitors discover. It invites them to become bees, bugs, conditions, they must meet a whole range of challenges, and wasps or butterflies to better let themselves be seduced. that of reproducing themselves is without doubt the most Sight to begin with: visitors contemplate the garden as if perilous. Their desire leads them to woo distant invisible through the eyes of a nectar-gatherer. Next, the body: aerial lovers as immobile as themselves. There is only one solution navigation among the wealth of enrooted beauties. And if they are ever to reach them. They must put themselves finally, using all their sense organs, nose, mouth and eyes in the hands of a liberating stranger, a messenger of love: alike, they are initiated into the joys of nectar gathering. bee, bumblebee, fly or butterfly. Plants bring forth their Once satisfied, ever sense approaching saturation and flowers for the sole purpose of attracting and detaining the power of flowers losing its hold over them, the nectar- their colporteurs of love. They deploy all their weapons gatherers can become festival-goers once again, let of seduction: colour, scent and nectar. Their powers of themselves be snatched away by another garden and, attraction are irresistible, driving the nectar-gatherers crazy perhaps, take on the role of love’s go-between. as they fly from one flower to the next, lightheaded from the nectar, and, all unknowing, achieve floral fertilisation.
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V. NEW IN 2017 , Prés du Goualoup, 2016 © Eric Sander du Goualoup, des iris bleus , Prés Promenade La Château vu depuis le Festival des Jardins © C. Diaz © des Jardins Château vu depuis le Festival
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BLOIS SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPING AND THE NATIONAL UNION OF LANDSCAPE COMPANIES
THE “JARDIN DE SOUS-BOIS” ON THE EDGE OF THE GARDEN FESTIVAL
This woodland garden is laid out on the edge of Chaumont- The pond, then, may be apprehended from two different sur-Loire’s International Garden Festival. viewpoints, which change the way it is perceived. At the entrance to the garden, it stretches out, inviting visitors to This initial garden, the Festival’s first discovery, lies below walk from one end to the other to see how long it actually the main visitors’ path. Hidden away in its bushy bower, it is. From the seat, however, it seems to be more of a graphic reveals itself as you descend the steps at the entrance to feature, extending the garden’s vegetation towards the the site. They lead you down into a cocoon of vegetation, Valley of Mists beyond. with a long central perspective formed by the pond. Walking alongside its waters, you discover the full richness Inspired by English-style gardens, the woodland garden of the woodland around you: white flowers greet springtime stands out for its exuberant vegetation, in marked contrast visitors, while autumn sees the garden ablaze with glowing to the geometrical design of the pond and providing visitors red foliage. Multi-trunked trees filter interplays of shadow with a bucolic stroll par excellence. and light that illuminate the foliage. Plants include varieties with wide-leaved, glistening or light- absorbing foliage, chosen to accentuate the impression of abundant vegetation around the pond, alongside others with more finely cut leaves each standing out in its turn as their flowering is spread out over the duration of the Festival. Trees and shrubs are grown in clumps, their barks often adding to the surrounding colour. Brick paving surrounds the pond and its sombre-hued waters, its colour harmonising with the corten-steel stairway, adding warmth to the atmosphere and in contrasted dialogue with the vegetation. In contrast to the masonry, the stairway seems light as air, as if cut from a single sheet of steel and set on the embankment’s vegetation. The stroll ends on the stairway, where visitors can rest awhile on the seat halfway up the embankment and admire the view of the garden below. Immersed in vegetation, they can sit in the shade and contemplate the vegetable scene beyond the pond. 48 www.domaine-chaumont.fr www.domaine-chaumont.fr 49 DOMAIN OF CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE 2017 INTERNATIONAL GARDEN FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL GARDEN FESTIVAL NEW IN 2017
THE RIVER OF PALE TULIPS THE PROMENADE OF BLUE IRISES BAPTISM OF A NEW CLEMATIS
HISTORIC GROUNDS PRÉS DU GOUALOUP PRÉS DU GOUALOUP
The Prés du Goualoup’s wonderful garden of blue irises A new flower connected with Domaine de Chaumont-sur- is doubling its surface area in 2017, providing visitors in Loire will be baptised on press day in early May. the month of May with a magnificent monochrome blue The flower in question is a double clematis bred by Arnaud spectacle. Travers.
La rivière de tulipes, 2016 © Eric Sander La promenade des iris bleus, 2016 © Eric Sander Clématite Red Passion®Zo11056 - © Pépinières TRAVERS 50 www.domaine-chaumont.fr www.domaine-chaumont.fr 51 DOMAIN OF CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE 2017 INTERNATIONAL GARDEN FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL GARDEN FESTIVAL NEW IN 2017
ÉRIC SANDER LUZIA SIMONS
"FLOWER POWER" PHOTOGRAPHS BLACKLIST / “FLOWER POWER” VIDEO GARDENERS COURT GALLERIES GARDENERS COURT GALLERIES
Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire’s accredited photogra- With thirty years in the business, his countless press The poetic little videos that make up Luzia Simons’ Museum De Buitenplaats, Eelde (Holland), Casa de las pher, Éric Sander, has taken thousands of pictures of the reports and the many photobooks he has published, Éric “Blacklist” series lead us into a humorous, dreamlike world Americas, Havana (Cuba), Museu de Arte Sacra, Belém gardens of the Estate and its International Garden Festival, Sander is a seasoned photographer well used to working in where plants and insects live side by side with much grace (Brazil), Coleção Joaquim Paiva, MAM Rio de Janeiro highlighting their mystery and poetry. unusual situations and remarkable places. and levity. (Brazil), MASP / Museu de Arte de São Paulo (Brazil), and the A series of 10 of his photographs will be on show during the He began his career in 1977, as a photo editor at the GAMMA University of Essex, Colchester (Great Britain). Numerous International Garden Festival. agency; 6 years later, he took himself off to Los Angeles private collections also present her works in Germany, Luzia Simons was born in Quixada in the northeast of Brazil France, Brazil and elsewhere. The Hôtel Adler has recently to cover the American west, and stayed there to work as a in 1953. She moved to Germany in 1986, after studying history acquired several of her creations. photojournalist. He went on to spend 16 years in America, and visual arts at the Sorbonne, and these days divides her With some thirty photobooks to his credit, Éric Sander during which he made a speciality of the more out-of-the- time between Berlin, Paris and São Paulo. A number of major solo exhibitions have been devoted to devotes most of his time to works commissioned by ordinary aspects of California. Represented by the Alexander Ochs Private Gallery in her in such institutions as the Pinacothèque, São Paulo, publishers of books of photographs and by private He became a correspondent for many of France’s top Berlin, the Fabian & Claude Walter Gallery in Zurich and the in 2013/14, the Chaumont-sur-Loire Art and Nature Centre individuals on their outstanding properties. magazines (VSD, L’Express, Le Figaro Magazine, Grands Carbono Gallery in São Paulo, her works are to be found in in 2009, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, in 2006, the Among others, he collaborates with landscaper Louis Reportages and Point de Vue) as well as for the American numerous institutions, including the National Collection of Institut Français, Istanbul, in parallel with the 2005 Biennal, Benech, architect and decorator Jacques Garcia, the press (Time Magazine, Newsweek, Business Week, Contemporary Art in Paris, the Chaumont-sur-Loire Art and and the Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, in 2002. Heritage Foundation, Pierres d’Histoire, Le Figaro Magazine, Smithsonian and National Geographic World). Nature Centre, Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin (Germany), In June 2016, the National Archives hosted the “Stockage” the Demeure Historique association, VMF, Architectural Kunsthalle Emden (Germany), Graphische Sammlung der (Storage) exhibition at their Paris site, an in situ contemporary Digest... Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (Germany), Kupferstich-Kabinett installation for the Hotel de Soubise’s main courtyard made der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (Germany), up of a dual series of scannograms.
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VI. THE PERMANENT GARDENS
All of them classified as “Remarkable Gardens”, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire’s permanent gardens see their beauty heightened yet further in the springtime. The Vegetable Garden, the Children’s Garden, the White Rose Garden, the Festival’s interstitial gardens, the Mirror Garden, the Château and Farmyard flowerbeds, and now the Goualoup gardens (Hualu, Ermitage sur Loire, Le jardin des nuées qui s’attardent, the Japanese gardens, the Korean garden, the Chinese garden and the English garden), present their colours and perfumes throughout the season. , Prés du Goualoup, 2016 © Eric Sander du Goualoup, de dahlias , Prés labyrinthe Le
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VII. THE DOMAIN OF CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE Vue aérienne du Domaine © Loisirs Valley Loire Vue
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Owned by the Centre-Loire Valley Region since 2008, 1. A multifaceted mission Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire encompasses the Since 2008 Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire has been Château, Park and International Garden Festival. Art the property of the Centre-Loire Valley Region, which has installations, photo exhibitions, meetings and symposia founded a new public cultural cooperation institution held there all explore the links between art and nature, (EPCC in French) for the purposes of carrying out an making the Domaine the very first Centre of Arts and ambitious artistic project. The Centre Region is one of the Nature to be focused entirely on the relationship that first regional authorities to have put itself forward for the artistic creation has with landscape invention. acquisition of a national Domaine, and such a prestigious one at that because of its past and outstanding location THE DOMAINE IN FIGURES alongside the Loire, a UNESCO World Heritage landscape.
12 000 000 sq.m. of total surface area Vue aérienne du Château / © DR As a public establishment, it has the dual mission of Château vu de l’autre rive de la Loire / © DR 32 hectares of Grounds ensuring the protection and promotion of the Estate, 1 ten-hectare extension, landscaped by Louis Benech its buildings and their contents, comprising Château, in 2012 Stables, outhouses and Grounds, and of developing a range of activities in the Château and Grounds connected Over 100 contemporary artists and photographers invited with nature and focusing on contemporary creation, between 2008 and 2015 including the International Garden Festival (created in 12 exhibition galleries, making a total of almost 2000 sq.m 1992) and a contemporary art season which will see its 9th 6 restaurants, located in the Château, the Farmyard and edition in 2017. the International Garden Festival
100% increase in visitors (2007 - 2016) 2. A range of objectives Over 400 000 visitors in 2016 (200 000 en 2007) From the sumptuous décor requested by Diane of Poitiers Passage La rivière de tulipes, 2016 / © Eric Sander 20 000 children hosted for educational activities in 2016 Installation de Cornelia Konrads à Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2015 / © Eric Sander to the extravagances of the Princess of Broglie, from the medallions of Nini to the recitals of Francis Poulenc, from recognised by the French Ministry for Culture and 1 owner : the Centre-Loire Valley Region Nostradamus to Germaine de Staël, from Henri Duchêne’s Communications, all of which work towards developing Open 363 days a year Park to the International Garden Festival, Chaumont- an ambitious contemporary artistic project within a 75% self-financing sur-Loire has always been at the forefront of creation, monument of nationwide importance and regional elegance and fantasy. relevance. A 5-star site for the Michelin Guide: 2 stars for the Château In utter keeping with this rich artistic history, Domaine de and 3 stars for the International Garden Festival. Chaumont-sur-Loire has been conducting a thriving and The Park and International Garden Festival of Chaumont- diversified programme since 2008, all year round, on the sur-Loire are listed as a “Remarkable Garden” in France link between art and nature, in the Château, the Park and and, since 2011, have also been the proud holders of the naturally through the International Garden Festival. All of “Remarkable trees” award. the activities (installations, artistic interventions, photo The “Garden Festival” event has been awarded3 stars by Le jardin flottant du songe exhibitions, symposia, meetings and so on) bear upon the Guide Michelin, on top of the Château’s 2 stars. It is Festival International des Jardins, 2016 / © Eric Sander this theme. also recognised as a “Quality tourism” venue. As a cultural venue for encounters since October 2008, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire has now joined the ranks of a European network of prestigious institutions
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3. The Domaine’s leading actors 4. Diary for 2017
Bernard Faivre d’Arcier Chantal Colleu-Dumond APRIL 2017 Chairman of the Board of the Domaine de Chaumont-sur- Director of Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire and the 1 APRIL 2017: opening of contemporary art exhibitions Loire International Garden Festival, and exhibition curator and installations Installation by Sheila Hicks (subject of a Centre-Loire Valley Region’s special commission). Graduate from the Hautes Etudes An Agrégé in Classical Literature, Chantal Installations and exhibitions by Sam Szafran, El Anatsui, Commerciales Business School, the Colleu-Dumond has spent much of her Stéphane Guiran, Sara Favriau, Karine Bonneval, Sorbonne in Literature, the Institut career abroad, holding a wide range of Marie Denis, Andrea Wolfensberger, Mâkhi Xenakis, d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and Ecole cultural positions, including: Miguel Chevalier, Davide Quayola, Gabriel Orozco, Andy Nationale d’Administration. - Director of the French Cultural Centre in Goldsworthy, Yamou, Mathieu Lehanneur, Cornelia Essen, Germany, 1982 to 1984. Konrads, Henrique Oliveira, Nikolay Polissky, Chris Drury, - Civil Administrator at the French Ministry - Artistic Attaché in Bonn, 1984 to 1988. Vincent Barré, Jannis Kounellis, Giuseppe Penone, Sarkis, Chaos for Culture (since 1972) - Cultural and Scientific Advisor in Bucharest, Romania, installation de Vincent Barré à Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2015 / © Eric Sander Tadashi Kawamata, Patrick Dougherty, Armin Schubert, - Assistant Director-General of the Institut National de 1988 to 1991 Andrea Branzi, Pablo Reinoso, Dominique Bailly, Anne and l’Audiovisuel (INA) - Director of the Ministry of Culture’s Department of Patrick Poirier, François Méchain, Rainer Gross and Patrick - Official Representative of the Chairman of the Centre European and International Affairs, 1991 to 1995. Blanc. National du Cinéma (CNC) - Cultural Advisor in Rome, 1995 to 1999. - Director of the Festival d’Avignon, from 1979 to 1984 and - With a lifelong love of heritage and gardens, she created 21 APRIL 2017: opening of the “Flower Power” International from 1993 to 2003 the “Forgotten Capitals” collection and has overseen Garden Festival - Cultural Advisor to the Prime Minister (1984-1986) the publication of some dozen works. She ran the - Founding Chairman of LA SEPT, the French branch of the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud Cultural Centre, where she JULY 2017 ARTE channel developed a project on the image of heritage. She has Award of Garden Competition prizes - Organiser of the Assemblée Nationale’s Bicentenary designed numerous projects and events over the course By awarding these prizes, the Domaine promotes the often events (1989) of her career, in particular in the fields of contemporary young and always talented teams of designers involved - International Consultant for festivals in Houston, Rome, art and photography. L’archipel de Shodo Suzuki and helps further their careers, so remaining faithful to one © Eric Sander Tokyo - Cultural Advisor to the French Embassy in Berlin and of the Festival’s essential values: discovery of tomorrow’s - President of the UNESCO International Fund for the Director of Berlin’s French Institute from 2003 to 2007. leading creators. Promotion of Culture - In September 2007, she took over the directorship of the - Director of Theatre and Shows for the French Ministry for Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, an estate comprising JULY and AUGUST 2017 Culture (1989-1992) the International Garden Festival, the Château and an The Chaumont-sur-Loire Nocturnes - Director of the Centre National du Théâtre from 1993 to Arts and Nature Centre where she is responsible for “Gardens of Light”: as night falls, Chaumont-sur-Loire’s 1998 artistic programming and exhibition curatorship. gardens take on new dimensions, magnified by cunningly - Founder of the European theatre network Theorem She is the author of a number of books including “Jardin positioned LED lighting whose colours, luminescence and - Commissioner-General for the Saison culturelle Contemporain Mode d’Emploi” published by Editions reflections reveal hitherto unseen aspects, unexpected Hongroise in 2001 in France (Magyart) and in 2003 for the Flammarion and translated into English as “Talk about and mysterious ambiences. An event made possible by the Saison culturelle Polonaise (Nova Polska). Contemporary Gardens” as well as into Chinese; she will Domaine’s partnership with Philips, Citéos and Néolight. be publishing a work on “art and nature” at Chaumont-sur- Explosive Nature Loire in spring 2017. Jardins de Lumière, 2016 / © DR
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OCTOBER 2017 All-Saints holidays: “Autumn Splendours” The Domaine dons its party clothes and invites one and all to visits, walks and discoveries of rare plants. Among other things, you can acquaint yourself with the “plant- life paintings” created for the occasion using seasonal vegetables and foliage, as well as the multiform colocynths and cucurbits that have invaded the Domaine and decorate its pathways, outhouses and the Château.
NOVEMBER 2017 TO FEBRUARY 2018
WINTER EXHIBITIONS Splendeurs d’Automne, 2016 © Eric Sander Jardins de Lumière, 2016 © DR Consult our website internet in September 2017. There are regular children’s workshops throughout the holidays.
“Winter gardens”: transforming its greenhouses, kitchen garden, Stables and Farmyard into magical environments despite the cold and bad weather, the Domain will provide ample proof that, even in wintertime, gardens can make you dream.
Jardins d’hiver, 2016 © DR
Bonheurs d’hiver, 2016 © Eric Sander
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VIII. UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO RESPECT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Vue aérienne du Domaine © Loisirs Valley Loire Vue des Jardins, 2016 © Eric Sander , Festival au jardin Vivre
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Preservation of the environment has become a worldwide Respect for those visiting Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire issue, synonymous with responsibility to future generations and eating at its restaurants has been a part of estate as the earth’s natural riches are not unlimited and certain “DNA” since they first opened their doors to the public. It kinds of behaviour put them at risk. has always made a priority of using fresh natural produce from local distribution channels and organic farming; This being so, respect for the environment on a daily basis products are prepared onsite and there is systematic use is of special concern to Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, of recyclable or compostable tableware. Customers have a which has introduced a number of simple but sensible selective sorting procedure available. measures that are proving effective. Naturally enough, respect for energy consumption is a Respect for flora and the land they grow on first of all, top priority; the Château’s gardens and pathways are through implementation of a strict set of rules. At Domaine illuminated by LED lighting throughout in order to reduce Les ruches du Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire / © DR Hôtel à insectes / © DR de Chaumont-sur-Loire, soils are enriched naturally electricity consumption as much as possible as well as to by composting, and watering is carried out at night by respect plant and animal wellbeing. microdispersion in order to limit evaporation and wastage of water. Evergreens used in the International Garden Festival All such actions are carried out in partnership with La Ferme are systematically replanted, so improving the flowering Sainte-Marthe, Loire à Vélo, the SNCF and the League for capacities of interstitial grounds and gardens over the Protection of Birds (LPO). years. Weeding is carried out by hand biothermally in order to avoid any form of soil pollution, and only natural mulch is used so as to prevent growth of weeds and preserve soil moisture. And finally, only electric vehicles are allowed on the site, and their use is limited to the estate’s needs.
Respect for fauna and pollination; preservation of the Les ruches du Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire / © DR Lépidohomes / © DR bee population is a priority concern, with construction of a number of beehives on the estate and a watch kept on such predator insects as Asian hornets. Regular expert assessments enable measurement of the diversity of the estate’s insect population, fostering its development by creation of a series of “insect hotels”. Finally, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire is labelled “Refuge LPO” and takes an active part in protecting birds by such means as provision of birdhouses and water points.
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IX. PARTNERS / CERTIFICATIONS AND NETWORKS Vue aérienne du Domaine © Loisirs Valley Loire Vue 2016 © Eric Sander Historique, de tulipes , Parc rivière La
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The International Garden Festival would like to thank its media partners
The Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire, owned by the Centre-Loire Valley Region, is delighted to introduce its partners
The International Garden Festival is also funded in part by the French Culture and Communication The International Festival of Gardens thanks the media sponsoring a garden Ministry (Centre Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs/DRAC)
Direction régionale des affaires culturelles Centre
The International Garden Festival is lent preferential support by Caisse des Dépôts, Truffaut and Philips
Its partners also include
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The Caisse des Dépôts and its subsidiaries constitute a Public Group acting as a long-term A natural calling investor serving the public interest and territorial economic development. With acknowledged Truffaut is proud to renew its partnership with the Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden expertise in mandate management, the Group focuses its action on four strategic transitions Festival for the 8th year running, and to be associated with this 26nd edition: “Flower Power”. for France’s long-term development: territorial, ecological and energy, digital, and demographic Helping gardeners to dream and create the gardens of today and tomorrow’s world has been and social transitions. Truffaut’s passion for over 190 years. More than a simple profession, it is a commitment that guides our activities in fostering a greener world. The Group has implemented a new sponsorship policy targeting young talents in the fields This spring, Truffaut will be spotlighting the diversity and quality of its plant and product offer in of classical music and dance, reflecting its role as owner of the Champs-Élysées Theatre. an outstanding mise-en-scene to the glory of the “Green Life”. A determination to live green that Such support to young talents also extends to architecture and landscaping, in line with its the brand will work to disseminate in all its shops in order to meet the expectations of all those involvement in the development of public spaces and its role as social housing financer. The who place their trust in it! setup of a new programme devoted to architecture and landscape aims to contribute to the emergence of a new generation of architects and landscapers via two actions: promotion of Sustainable harmony research through an annual call for candidacies, funding 10 research projects submitted by This year as always, Truffaut will be a committed actor in the success of this magnificent event, graduates, teachers and professionals, and support to initiatives from throughout the country which never fails to spur the enthusiasm of a loyal and ever more numerous public. highlighting awareness-raising actions among the public at large and architectural models As usual, Truffaut will do its utmost to ensure that visitors to the International Garden Festival connected with the circular economy. have plenty of happy surprises in store for them, as well as making its usual contributions carried out at previous editions. The Caisse des Dépôts Group has chosen to associate itself with the 26th edition of the Visitors will find a space dedicated to the event on our website, www.truffaut.com, where Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival. The partnership expresses the institution’s internauts will be able to visit or revisit all the Festival’s gardens and find our personal favourites commitment to promote landscape creation in France, a commitment borne witness to by the among the plants they contain, along with planting and maintenance guides to ensure their many projects it sponsors in this sphere of activity. successful growth in gardens at home. The new garden sponsored by Truffaut will also be awaiting your discovery, – testimony to our company’s commitment to a spirit, an aesthetic and an approach that respects the environment to the full – as will our Truffaut encyclopaedias, which will be on sale at the Festival shop. Visitors will also be able to increase their knowledge of and know-how on the plant world by viewing the various Truffaut Web TV educational videos broadcast on site.
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CERTIFICATIONS AND NETWORKS
Philips Lighting, a world leader in lighting solutions, is set to highlight artist/landscape As a cultural venue for encounters since October 2008, architects’ works on the theme of “Flower Power”. and belonging to the cultural landscape listed as a For the 9th year running, Philips Lighting is a Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival UNESCO World Heritage, the Domaine de Chaumont-sur- partner, alongside lighting designer Sylvain Bigot (NeoLight) and Citéos (Vinci Group). Loire has now joined the ranks of a European network of From April to November 2017, visitors will be able to acquaint themselves with the ephemeral prestigious institutions recognised by the French Ministry gardens on show, letting their imaginations be borne away by a giddily colourful spectacle for Culture and Communicatios, all of which work towards combining art and innovation. the protection of heritage, an innovative artistic project and cultural development at the service of their region. An initiative very much in line with company policy Over recent years, Philips has stepped up its actions and initiatives with regard to sustainable The Park and International Garden Festival of Chaumont- development and partnerships focusing on ecological issues, convinced that the wellbeing sur-Loire are listed as a Remarkable“ Gardens” and provided by light is indissociable from respect for the environment. “Remarkable Trees” site thanks to the exceptional cedars The company has been involved in the Festival for almost a decade now, demonstrating that grace the grounds. the benefits of lighting produced by LED technology. Through its ability to reduce energy The Domaine has also been awarded “Loire à Vélo” and consumption, adapt to and melt into its surroundings, and give rise to new lighting concepts, “Tourism Quality” certification. LED lighting has assumed its rightful place in our landscape and environment. The Michelin Guide has awarded it 3 stars as a cultural event. Philips Lighting, world leader in lighting and LED lighting World leader in lighting and LED lighting, Philips Lighting is active in over 60 countries. Located on French soil since 1920, Philips Lighting is France’s top employer in the lighting sector, with 7 sites, two factories in Lamotte and Miribel, an internationally renowned R&D centre and a logistics centre serving France and Southern Europe.
Meaningful innovations A real technological leap in the field of connected LED lighting, Philips Lighting’s sustainable and economical innovations meet all new environmental regulations and constraints. They provide the public at large and local authorities with simple solutions enabling up to 90% reductions in towns’ and cities’ energy consumption, for a healthier, safer and more sustainable world for our and our children’s future.
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X. USEFUL INFORMATION Vue aérienne du Domaine © Loisirs Valley Loire Vue 2016 © Eric Sander Historique, de tulipes , Parc rivière La des Jardins, 2016 © Eric Sander , Festival des É MERGENCEs jardin Le
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PRESS AGENCY OPENING TIMES Claudine Colin Communication Caroline Vaisson The International Garden Festival is open daily from the 20th of April to the 5th of November 2017, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (opening [email protected] hours vary depending on season). Tél : 33 (0) 142 726 001 The Château and the Historic Grounds are open all year round, exhibitions from the 1st of April to the 5th of November 2017. As from April, the Château is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (opening hours vary depending on season). Winter exhibitions and décor bring the Château to life all year round.
PRICES ACCESS Entrance ticket Reduced fee 1 Children between 6 - 11 “Domain” ticket for 1 day 2 €18.00 €11.50 €6.00 Chaumont-sur-Loire lies between Blois and Tours, 185 km from Paris. A10 or A85 motorway, Blois or Amboise “Domain” ticket for 2 consecutive day 3 €30.00 €20.00 €10.00 junctions. International Garden Festival ticket 4 €15.00 €9.50 €5.00 There are several daily train services on the Paris Austerlitz Château ticket 5 €12.00 €7.00 €4.00 - Orléans - Tours line, get off at Onzain / Chaumont-sur- Loire; or the Paris-St Pierre des Corps TGV (high-speed FAMILY TICKET - €36.00 train) line then change onto the St Pierre des Corps- For two full priced “Domain” tickets, two free admissions are granted to children between the ages of 6 and 11 Onzain / Chaumont-sur-Loire line. During the summer there is a direct two-way rail link between Gare d’Austerlitz and Gare d’Onzain / Chaumont- sur-Loire. Free entrance for under 6’s FREE CAR PARK
1 Reduced fee accorded to those between 12 and 18 and to students upon presentation of card 2 Access to the whole estate: International Garden Festival, Goualoup Park, Château, Stables and Historic Grounds 3 Access to the whole Estate and the Nocturnal events 4 Access to the International Garden Festival, Goualoup Park and Historic Grounds 5 Access to the Château, Stables and Historic Grounds
MULTIMEDIA GUIDE
In 10 languages (4 for children) for the Château visit, supplementary tariff of €4.00
Adults Application also available on Children 6 6 Children aged 6 and over
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XI. SELECTION OF VISUALS AVAILABLE FOR THE PRESS
Below is a selection of visuals intended for the press. A larger gallery of high-definition visuals is also at your disposal, for free download, on our website www.domaine-chaumont.fr (“Press” page) Vue aérienne du Domaine © Loisirs Valley Loire Vue 2016 © Eric Sander Historique, de tulipes , Parc rivière La des Jardins, 2016 © Eric Sander flottant du songe , Festival jardin Le
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Le bouquet d’après, Festival des Jardins 2017 - © DR La fleur du mal, Festival des Jardins 2017 - © DR La promenade des iris bleus, 2016 © Éric Sander Le Jardin Flottant du Songe, Festival des Jardins 2016 © Éric Sander
Le trône de fleurs, Festival des Jardins 2017 - © DR Les belles aux eaux dormantes, Festival des Jardins 2017 - © DR Le jardin du Parfumeur, Festival des Jardins 2016 © Éric Sander
Levant, Festival des Jardins 2017 - © DR La rivière de tulipes, 2016 - © Eric Sander © Éric Sander
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