Enchantments - The Gardens of William Christie (Coffee Table Book)

On the occasion of the celebration of William Christie's 80th birthday, Éditions VMF and the famous conductor wanted to produce a collaborative work highlighting his gardens, now listed as historic monuments. .

Where then are the most beautiful enchantments played out? In a garden, certainly. A garden quivering with leaves and birds, which the fairies, in the soft shade of the trees, have not deserted, where music is like the air we breathe there, where we never stop reinventing happiness, according to the seasons and the blooms, between the fantasy of the topiaries and the geometry of the hornbeams, the murmurs of the water and the notes flying in the summer night, the memory of the stones and the tangle of the branches, the promise of the fruits and the fragility of the roses in the heat of the day. A garden whose enchanter, William Christie, is at once a musician, an aesthete and a gardener. And what a musician! And what a gardener!

It is in Thiré in Vendée, on the borders of the Bocage and the Plain, in a peaceful corner of the countryside where the paths and woods have retained some of their old mysteries and the charm of the old provinces, that we have seen, around a noble residence from the end of the 16th century, blossom, grow and embellish, patiently, year after year, this garden like no other, composed in the free course of inspiration, like an enchanted score of the most exquisite harmony, of the most extreme refinement.