Reford Gardens
LE CAVEAU by Christian Poules,
Basel, Switzerlan
Photo credit: Martin Bond
throughout the summer where
visitors become the garden by
donning one of colourful capes.
Special events include the
annual fundraising dinner in aid
of the Festival in the potager
on August 5 and a series of
events to launchExperimenting
Landscapes Testing the Limits
of the Garden, a new book by
Emily Waugh on the Festival to
be published by Birkhäuser in
September.
About the New Gardens of the
17th Edition
LE CAVEAU by Christian Poules,
architect and landscape
architect, Basle, Switzerland.
The growing plane is shrouded
in the intimacy of Le Caveau - a
simple room of stone and earth.
It is a room for reflection. It is a
room for dreamers. Just as the
plane levitates before us, we
are held in the balance of the
stone and life itself.
The personification of our
own imagination is suspended
in time. The primitive plane
symbolizes a beginning, while
the seeds and the soil form the
tilted horizon between earth
and sky.
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The beauty of the garden is
found in the simplicity and
contradiction of material,
light, time and space. It is a
shelter for meditation and
a canvas for nature. In Le
caveau, vastness is held
behind its ramparts.
LA MAISON DE JACQUES
by Romy Brosseau,
Rosemarie Faille-Faubert,
milie GagnÈ-Loranger,
QuÈbec (QuÈbec) Canada
Photo credit: Martin Bond
Christian Poules is both an
architect and landscape
architect who constructs
poetic places in the balance
of the two disciplines.
Practicing outside of fad
or style, he is concerned
only with the development
of the common ground
between human sensory
experience and natural
phenomena.
Nature, alone, is his
muse and in her realm
his work manifests care