Description
Editions Eugen Ulmer, Paris, Published 2010. Softcover, 94 pp.; 27 cm; text in French and English; color photographs throughout and color garden plan. Series: Des Jardins d'exception.
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In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers with a color photograph of the hornbeam topiary allee at Eyrignac, red title lettering, series title at lower right. Light bumping to the corners and mild shelf wear along the edges. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and unmarked.A large-format photographic monograph documenting the celebrated formal gardens of the Manoir d'Eyrignac in the Dordogne (Perigord Noir), maintained by 22 generations of the Sermadiras family. Photography by Eric Sander, foreword by Bernadette Chirac (wife of former French President Jacques Chirac), introduction by Patrick Sermadiras de Pouzols de Lile, English translation by Simon Garbutt. Published in Ulmer's "Des Jardins d'exception" series of exceptional gardens. The gardens are noted for their hornbeam and yew topiary, box parterres, 18th-century Chinese pavilion, white garden, and fishpond, presented through full-page color photography with parallel French and English captions and essays.Contents: The Hornbeam Walk; The Pavilion of Tranquility; The Chinese Pavilion; The Hornbeam Rotunda and the Avenue of Vases; The Circle of Tranquility; The French Garden; The Fishpond; The White Garden.