Poltrona con gambe in legno
83 x 78 x 93H
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Vaux-le-Vicomte
The possession of Vaux, initially in two plots, was dif-
fi cult to treat, as it consisted of two valleys that hung
askew: these obstacles were subdued for the garden,
thanks to the almost inexhaustible sources of money
the Superintendent Nicolas Fouquet did not hesitate to
earmark for the project by André Le Nôtre; course of
a river was diverted by 45° and conveyed into a chan-
nel that passes under the gardens in a tunnel 1.5 Km;
natural slopes were revisited in a number of horizontal
planes, not only key for perspective, but illusion too. The
forest was tamed, to take an area of about 70 acres
for the Garden: this space from statue of Hercules, on
the opposite side and farther to the South of the Castle
facade, extends for 1500 meters in length and a width
of 250/300 meters was always, from any point of view
dominated by palace. the Palace stands on the gar-
den, an expression of the owner’s domain on nature.
Guillaume Gillet said these gardens: “they are designed
to breathe in deeply streamlined space where circula-
ting in the same breed of France”. Over a century, the
heirs of The Notre Europe gardens created by applying
the teachings that were made at Vaux-le-Vicomte.
