Great Gardens: Jardin en Cévennes
A look inside the flourishing valley oasis of French designer Pascal Brault
Director Toby Amies talks about visiting the verdant South of France garden of Chanel designer Pascal Brault. Here amid a range of mountains, Brault shares a holiday home with his husband, set designer Stéfan Lubrina, and their border terrier Frickey:
"Pascal’s beautiful garden is more about letting nature at its best affect the person who visits it, rather than a gardener affecting nature. All too often a formal garden represents our vanity in thinking we can exert real, lasting control over the natural world, but Pascal’s paradise in Cévennes is a playful dance in which nature is the leader, and the better for it.
“The garden was designed to express our human right to be at rest and stare up at the simple beauty of a green canopy”
"It was a enormous privilege to be there, but I also felt like the garden was designed to express our human right to be at rest and stare up at the simple beauty of a green canopy or bite down on a delicious blue tomato."
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Great Gardens: Jardin en Cévennes
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