Ebook: In and out of Paris: gardens of secret delights

Introduction; Outside the Walls; Garden Estates; Inspired Vaux-le-Vicomte; Magnificent Versailles; Reflections at Courances; Rodin's Sculpture Garden; Désert de Retz Follies; Monet's Colorful Giverny; Experimental Parc Méry-sur-Oise; Private Paris; Surrealism Near Madeleine; Louis Benech in Faubourg Saint-Germain; An Artful Hideout; Hôtel George V Courtyard; Kenzo Takada's Perfect Retreat; Follies at Villa André Bloc; Jean-Michel Othoniel's Herbier; Up on the Roof; Contemporary Folly; Patrick Blanc's Jungle Inside; Camille Muller's Call of the Wild; Chimneys and Sweeping Views.;Among the more than 30 great and small projects within 'In & Out of Paris' are Vaux-le-Vicomte, Versailles, and Courances--all classic André Le Nôtre--style French gardens. Also discover the Paris gardens of celebrated artist Jean-Michel Othoniel and art aficionado Pierre Bergé, architect Kenzo Takada's Japanese retreat in the Bastille, Australian couturier Martin Grant's tiny terrace in the Marais, Mexican painter MariCarmen Hernandez's Montmartre rooftop, and American architect Michael Herrman's homage to Le Corbusier's surreal ChampsÉlysées garden for bon vivant Charles de Beistegui. Modern masters Louis Benech, Gilles Clement, Pascal Cribier, Christian Fournet, Camille Muller, Hugues Peuvergne, and Pierre-Alexandre Risser are also featured, representing a new era of experiments, color, and asymmetry in the Paris garden.