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2015 edition - Extraordinary gardens, collector's gardens

04bis. COLLECTION NOIRE

published at 18/09/2017

Jewellery is in a world of its own, filled with mystery and elegance. An inaccessible curiosity, except if you're lucky enough to have the key. To come up with a complete range, a jeweller draws inspiration from the world she lives in.

"Collection noire", Festival des Jardins 2015 - © E. Sander

Le jardin noir, a secret black garden, is open for a short time only. Its owner, an astute collector from the world of jewellery, is fascinated by the plant kingdom. Behind dark foliage, the most striking will be shown by manufactured devices. Handicraft at the service of plants: the exception of a “black collection” as precious as a jewel.

The garden assembles a most unusual universe spun from black and gold. No longer just a source of inspiration, plants have become the sole, all-consuming muse of a designer obsessed with black, in constant search for the rare flower, like a gemstone. Everything has been designed to offer up a dazzling black purity, dappled with blue, brown and red in the changing light and ranging from the velvety, to the prickly to the shimmering. The plants are unveiled subtly and delicately, with golden touches here and there.

designers

Mathilde GACHET, DPLG-qualified landscaper, and Julien LEROY, DE-qualified architect
FRANCE
 
 
Mathilde and Julien first met through mutual friends and often discuss their respective professions and professional goals. During one such discussion, the subject of Chaumont-sur-Loire’s International Garden Festival came up. And then, in July 2014, following publication of the call for projects, they again brought up the possibility of their shared participation in the event and working together. And now, this State-registered landscaper and architect duo has created a garden bursting with inspiration.
 

After studying applied arts in communication at the ENSAAMA Olivier de Serre in Paris, Mathilde Gachet turned to the study of landscaping and graduated from Marseilles’ Higher School of Landscaping in 2012 as a State-registered (DLPG) landscape architect. She is currently employed at a Lyon landscaping firm specialising in private gardens. Mathilde is also a freelancer, her ambition being to work in a multidisciplinary team that includes architects urban planners and designers.

Julien Leroy graduated from the Lyon Higher School of Architecture as a State-registered architect in 2014 and lost no time setting about helping to raise awareness of architecture among the public at large through events and exhibitions. His involvement in student life led him to become President of the National Union of Architecture and Landscaping Students (UNEAP), through which he met many actors in architecture and landscaping’s professional and institutional worlds. He is currently developing his skills in the fields of communication and architecture with the aim of committing himself to cultural awareness-raising in the realms of architecture, towns, landscapes and design.

THE GARDEN'S PLANTS

Acer palmatum atropurpureum
Acer palmatum dissectum atropurpureum
Acer platanoides 'Crimson Sentry’
Alcea rosea nigra
Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Black Barlow’
Berberis atropurpurea
Centaurea montana ‘Black Sprite’
Cordyline aus. ‘Red Star’
Corylus avellana ‘Red Majestic’
Cosmos atrosanguineus ‘Chocolat’
Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’
Dahlia ‘Cactus Prince Noir’
Dahlia ‘Tartarus'
Dahlia ‘Pompon Radjah’
Fritilaria persica
Heuchera ‘Lime Rickey’
Heuchera ‘Obsidian’
Iris ‘Dusky dancer’
Ligularia dentata ‘Midnight Lady’
Ophiopogon nigrescens
Paeonia hybride ‘Belle Center’
Pennisetum ‘Burgundy Giant’
Phyllostachys nigra
Physocarpus opulif ‘Diabolo’
Rudbeckia occidentalis ‘Green Wizard’
Sambucus nigra ‘Black Lace’
Scabiosa atropurpurea ‘Chile sauce’
Tulipa ‘Black Parrot’
Veratum nigrum
Viola ‘Molly Sanderson’

GARDEN CREATED WITH SUPPORT FROM

Pépinières Simier
Entre Deux Cultures
Jonathan Coffin, forgeron d'art
"Collection noire", Festival des Jardins 2015 - © C. Diaz
"Collection noire", Festival des Jardins 2015 - © E. Sander
"Collection noire", Festival des Jardins 2015 - © C. Diaz
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