The International Garden Festival is pleased to announce the names of the designers selected for the 17th edition presented at Les Jardins de Métis / Reford Gardens, from June 23 to October 2, 2016. Visitors will be invited to explore the twenty-seven contemporary gardens, and enter the interactive spaces created by more than eighty-five landscape architects, architects and designers.
The five new gardens of the 2016 edition of the Festival, selected from 203 projects submitted from 31 countries, are:
LE CAVEAU by Christian Poules, architect and landscape architect, Basel, Switzerland
LE CAVEAU by Christian Poules, architect and landscape architect, Basel, Switzerland
Le caveau by Christian Poules, architect and landscape architect, Basel, Switzerland The growing plane is shrouded in the intimacy of Le caveau (the cave)?a four-sided room of stacked gabions full of stones. Stone that allows light to filter through its gaps and washes the room with its shadows. It is a room of 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 imaginations suspended in time. The primitive plane symbolizes a beginning ?the seed and the soil, the tilted horizon between earth and sky.
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 beh...