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Article: COMMUNITY GARDENS WAS THE THEME FOR THIS YEAR'S CHAUMONT GARDEN FESTIVAL.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
- Author:
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You can get to Chaumont by plane from Stansted to Tours then a hire car via Vouvray and Amboise. The wonderful Chenonceau is 10km to the south, Cheverny, Chambord and Blois are up river to the east. Villandry is back west beyond Tours. These are the great French Renaissance formal gardens with parterres in front and pattes d'oie and ronds-point in the countryside behind. The Chaumont festival site a few hundred metres up the hill from the lowering eminence of the chateau of that name is a friendly two fingers to these ur-landscapes. There they are, 30 of them, small and strictly twenty-first century in their oddly shaped hedged enclosures. On show from May to October they ...