Paru le 29/01/2008 | Relié sous jaquette 159 pages
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préface Anita Ortiz
Pleasure Gardens in Provence
The Art of Michel Semini
This beautiful book invites the reader to discover the Mediterranean pleasure gardens of designer Michel Semini. Celebrities of film and fashion such as Pierre Arditi, Pierre Bergé, Jean-Claude Brialy, and Pierre Vaneck have all turned to Michel Semini in their search for the country garden of their dreams, where elegance and luxury rhyme with Provence...
Louisa Jones takes you through more than twenty gardens, and reveals how Michel Semini, master magician, creates living gardens which mix the pleasures of nature and farming with plays on volume, shape, colour, perspective, panoramas, the careful staging of delightful scenes with dense plantings, shifting sun and shade, fragrance you can almost smell... Each chapter includes practical advice for adapting the « Semini style ». Michel Semini also includes his own lists of favourite plants and suppliers.
Canadian born, Louisa Jones has been living for 35 years in southern France. A keen gardener herself, she has published many books on French gardens and Provence.
