Cordelia de Castellane Garden
Cordelia de Castellane Garden
Cordelia de Castellane, creative director of Dior Maison and Baby Dior, created a beautiful garden at her country home in northern France with the help of designer Milan Hajsinek. The garden is located in the Oise, north of Paris, and has hundreds of flowers for cutting. The borders bring beautiful flowers to the home as well as inspiration for her role as creative director at Dior.
The garden
is divided into two parts: front and back. The front garden is unadorned and
elegant with a patch of lawn accented by large boxwood balls. The house itself
is softened with climbing roses and near the entrance is a classic French
pigeon coop where Cordelia used to dry flowers and store seeds. The rear garden
is intersected by a long grassy driveway with spacious borders on either side.
A cutting path creates views across the garden, above the clouds, to the fields
beyond – and back to the conservatory. Old-fashioned David Austin roses in
tones of pink, cream and apricot are adorned with cut boxwood cones and mounds
and lined with vibrant herbaceous perennials.
Cordelia’s formal garden is a haven filled with beautiful flowers that can inspire anyone to create their own garden.
Formal gardens, also known as informal gardens, are a type of garden based on symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature. Its example is often considered the garden of Versailles, designed in the 17th century by landscape architect André Le Notre for Louis XIV and widely copied by other European courts. The French garden is a development of the French Renaissance garden, inspired by the Italian Renaissance garden of the early 16th century. The Italian Renaissance garden is characterized by planting beds, or planting beds. trees, created in geometric shapes and arranged in a symmetrical fashion; the use of fountains and waterfalls to enliven the garden; stairs and ramps to unify the different levels of the garden; caves, labyrinths and statues on mythological themes.
France’s first important garden was the castle of Vaux-le-Vicomte, created for Nicolas Fouquet, chief financial officer of Louis XIV, from 1656. Fouquet commissioned Louis Le Vau to design the castle, Charles Le Brun to design the garden statues, and André Le Notre to design the gardens.
French gardens were widely copied throughout Europe and beyond. It is characterized by symmetry, embroidered beds, fountains and statues.
