#LeNôtre has left heirs down through the centuries and all over the world. Discover them

La Malgrange seen from the Rond-point
des Goulottes, by André Joly

This draft from the 18th century by architect, designer and theoretician Emmanuel Héré was directly inspired by Le Nôtre's Springs Grove. XVIIIth century, Musée Lorrain, Nancy.

Villa Church, Ville d'Avray, 1927-1929,
by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret

This architectural drawing presents the first version of the parterre of Villa Church, built from 1927 to 1929 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Ville-d’Avray, between Paris and Versailles. Le Corbusier created a variant to the embroidery parterre: in the paving stones of the ground-floor terrace, he inserted flower bed "cut-outs", dear to Le Nôtre. 1927-1929, Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris.

Photograph of the 9/11 Memorial in New-York,
by Peter Walker Partners (PWP) Landscape Architecture

Minimalism is an artistic movement of the 1960s. It had a major influence on the practices of certain contemporary landscape designers and their interpretation of the gardens of Le Nôtre. Peter Walker, the landscape architect commissioned to create the Memorial to the victims of the 9/11 attacks in New York, designed two large empty spaces marking the absence of the destroyed towers. All around the edges, water cascades down, seemingly disappearing into the innermost depths of the city, like in a bottomless well. 21st century, Peter Walker Partners (PWP) Landscape Architecture.

Heritage and modernity
Le Nôtre

ROOM N°8

After the death of Le Nôtre, his art continued to flourish through the works of numerous designers. His direct heirs were his former assistants and great-nephews. The work of Le Nôtre was also disseminated through prints and treatises. With La Théorie et la pratique du jardinage (1709), Dezallier d’Argenville gave the most famous synopsis on the French formal garden and some of the principles of Le Nôtre.
Throughout the 19th century, formal gardens continued to be created in France for "Grand Genre" enthusiasts. Numerous designers and theoreticians from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day refer to Le Nôtre. This appropriation takes place on the scale of gardens and cities, involving a diversity of approaches and meanings. Le Nôtre also caught the interest of architects and urbanists such as Le Corbusier and Henri Prost who integrated his perspectives in France's first motorway network in the 1930s.
The inventive interpretation of the work of Le Nôtre was further intensified after the war with works such as the Axe Majeur in Cergy-Pontoise, the terraced promenade of Riem-Munich and the 9/11 Memorial in New York.

Crédits

© Nancy, musée Lorrain / photo : Claude Philippot
©FLC/ADAGP, 2013
© Peter Walker Partners (PWP) Landscape Architecture.

Heritage and modernity of le Nôtre

La Malgrange seen from the Rond-point
des Goulottes, by André Joly
This draft from the 18th century by architect, designer and theoretician Emmanuel Héré was directly inspired by Le Nôtre's Springs Grove. Before 1640, Musée Lorrain, Nancy.

ROOM N°8

After the death of Le Nôtre, his art continued to flourish through the works of numerous designers. His direct heirs were his former assistants and great-nephews. The work of Le Nôtre was also disseminated through prints and treatises. With La Théorie et la pratique du jardinage (1709), Dezallier d’Argenville gave the most famous synopsis on the French formal garden and some of the principles of Le Nôtre.
Throughout the 19th century, formal gardens continued to be created in France for "Grand Genre" enthusiasts. Numerous designers and theoreticians from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day refer to Le Nôtre. This appropriation takes place on the scale of gardens and cities, involving a diversity of approaches and meanings. Le Nôtre also caught the interest of architects and urbanists such as Le Corbusier and Henri Prost who integrated his perspectives in France's first motorway network in the 1930s.
The inventive interpretation of the work of Le Nôtre was further intensified after the war with works such as the Axe Majeur in Cergy-Pontoise, the terraced promenade of Riem-Munich and the 9/11 Memorial in New York.