THICKET OF THE MIND
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER
An American garden at the Domaine Chaumont-sur-Loire garden festival is a landscape of endless possibility.
FROM THE OCTOBER 2018 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.
When Phoebe Lickwar, ASLA, and Matt Donham arrived in a small town in central France this past March, everyone knew who they were. The designers, principals at FORGE Landscape Architecture and RAFT Landscape Architecture, respectively, were one of some 24 teams (and the only Americans) competing in this year?s Domaine Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival. And as they walked around, Donham remembers, ?every person was like, ?Ohhhh, the Americans with the 400 trees.? Even the guy who took our tickets in the chateau was like, ?Oh, you?re the ones with the 400 trees.?? The festival?s theme was ?Garden of Thoughts,? and Lickwar?s and Donham?s concept, Dans les Bois or Into the Woods, was based loosely on Jorge Luis Borges?s short story ?The Garden of Forking Paths,? which presents a labyrinthine garden as a metaphor for time, choice, and infinite possibilities. Their plan called for two intersecting systems of walkways: the first, a circuitous and ultimately circular series of gravel paths, the second, a skewed grid of wooden gangways, each as narrow as a gymnast?s balance beam. Both would be obscured by a dense screen of vegetation, created by more than 400 trees.
Young whips were planted close together to create an instantaneous woodland experience. Image courtesy Eric S...
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