Let’s hear it for the retail stores who are always creating better and more affordable design for the savvy and smart customers who want only the best in their homes but, perhaps don’t want to pay a higher price tag for custom furniture. A mixture of high and low furniture is ideal to create a more real and lived-in home so leave it to smarter chain stores to offer us better options on mass production. Here is a list of my latest favorites in home furnishing available today. Enjoy!
Jardin à la Française or French Formal Garden is a garden design based on harmony and balance born during The Late Renaissance in France. There French Landscape Architect named Andre Le Nôtre has received all the credit for The French Formal Garden. He got the accolade after he was responsible for the transformation of the gardens of The Castle of Vaux le Vicomte, which after that became to be one of the most spectacular Chateau in France of its time. This Garden design has its origins in Italy during the Renaissance revival. Andre Le Notre is also responsible for the famous The Petit Trianon’s garden which he designed while working at gardens of Palace of Versailles, the beginning of what is today The Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Chateau Fontainebleau and many other spectacular gardens not only in France but also in England, Italy and Germany. The landscape architect was a pure genius as you can see… The Jardin à la Française style combines the use of parterre or bed of greens in geometric shapes divided by gravel walkways, topiaries, fountains or pools in symmetrical patterns in an attempt to create a perfect integration to the Architecture of the Chateaus resulting in a perfect perspective view from miles away.
Some people are lucky, and others are ridiculously lucky. Claude Wasserstein is among the latter, not only for having the freedom to hire three top designers such as Jacques Grange, Jeffrey Bilhuber and Daniel Romualdez but for having both of best worlds, an elegantly chic apartment, and an incredible garden, both in the City. When I was finalizing reading the huge September issue of Vogue, notice using a pillow underneath to cushion my legs, I came across this refreshing breath of air from a rooftop apartment with an amazing outside garden complete with a table that seats up to ten people. Exceptional! The splash of yellow throughout the house is evident, and the layers of a colorful palette are uplifting and appropriate for every season. It’s a long weekend, yippieee! And I’m planning to enjoy it with my family, locally and relaxed. Have an excellent Labor Day Weekend everyone!
Our outdoor patio will have to have a place to eat Al Fresco, cushions, there must be a bunch for comfort, evergreen and of course flowers among which there will be wisteria, lavender and roses. ummm…that sounds like a lot of purple.
Wonderful places like the shores, architecture, valleys, skylines, gardens, all those sort of open spaces make me feel and remind me of a greater and more higher source. I know that many of us feel the same. These images of a lovely and charming English country house with a late Georgian architecture surrounded by beds of lavender and vegetable patches sounds like a perfect place to go and unwind. Don’t you?
