Vaux-le-Vicomte Parterre
$22.00
The garden André Le Nôtre laid out before Versailles existed. Nicolas Fouquet was Louis XIV's superintendent of finances; for one summer in 1661, his lawn was the most ambitious thing in Europe. Three weeks after the housewarming, Fouquet was arrested. Le Nôtre, Louis Le Vau, and Charles Le Brun were reassigned to Versailles. The parterre is the work Le Nôtre never had to revise. Best read from the terrace above, when the long basin holds the sky on its back and the boxwood embroidery sits clean against the gravel.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.