Nicole De Vésian : Un Art Des Jardins En Provence

Nicole de Vésian created her first garden at the age of seventy: La Louve, in the Luberon, a masterpiece unanimously admired and imitated throughout the world. Less well known are her creations for a few friends and clients, compositions sometimes on a landscape scale, sometimes intimate.

A former stylist in Paris, notably for Hermès, Nicole de Vésian had a sense of space like some musicians have an ear. The art with which she carved the plants avoided all symmetry and remained simple but warm. She advised to "learn to listen to the earth": in fact, her plant sculptures always refer to the wild hill, to a Mediterranean landscape logic that is both ancient and very modern.

This book reveals the keys to the art of this atypical creator and gives the testimony of those who were her friends or collaborators: Christian Lacroix, the nurseryman Jean-Marie Rey, the landscape designers Arnaud Maurières and Eric Ossart, the sculptor Marc Nucera...