If you’ve been to Paris, then you may be very familiar with the Architectural design element known as trellis, lattice or trelliage. You may have seen lattice all over Paris’s parks and exterior building walls. Originally created as a garden element for mainly the separation between the more wild areas and the formal ones, trellis eventually took a more functional role as structures for grapevines, climbing roses and ivy plants to climb on. Nowadays their most modern use is more for the decorating aspect rather than for its function so much so that we can see it very often indoors covering interior walls. When lattice is used inside the house for covering the walls in intrinsic design its architectural effect is even more of a statement.
A home in Palm Beach with lattice on walls.
A trellis is an architectural structure made of long, narrow wood pieces that are crisscrossed to create square or diamond-shaped patterns. Trelliage can be made of wood or metal, and its most known use belongs in the garden to provide anatomy for climbing roses, ivy plants or function as screens. When this design structure is used as screen or fence in the garden or backyard, the visual effect is more than spectacular. Of course this latter use is only suitable when the architecture of the house complements the elegance of a trellis fence. Sometimes lattice can also be made of hard wire strategically nailed against outdoor walls to train climbing plants. This technique may look quite at home in a stone house.
The secret garden at The Ritz in Paris vıa Town and Country
Besides adding an Architectural element when used inside the house, lattice can also provide other more functional purposes such as a hanger to hang pots and pans, coats and even jewelry and other household items.
Miles Redd New York City patio with trellis on the exterior brick walls.
Pavillon Frais, Versailles
The first person recognized to make use of this architectural design as a design element was king Louis XIV who hired landscape Architect André Le Nôtre to design the gardens of Versailles. In America, trellis was put on the spotlight by Interior Designer Elsie de Wolfe who decorated an entire room with trellis for The Colony club in New York City back in 1905.
rendering of The Trellis Room at The Colony Club in NYC designed by Elsie de Wolfe via Pinterest
Amanda Lindroth design
Jean Louis Deniot designed this room with a mirror behind trellis.
Accents of France creates gorgeous trellis design for indoors and outdoors. You can also find more affordable trellis structures at Trellis Structure.
Bellow, a few trellis accessories which can easily be incorporated into your garden or home.
From right to left, an arbor is usually a passageway or tunnel with trellis to help climbing trees to grow up. Planter, Willow climber, compass accessory.
