Grisel, Laurent
LES JARDINS DE RENE PECHERE
Bruxelles: Archives d'Architecture Modern, 2002

Large quarto. 286 pp; color photographs throughout, plans. Text in French. Silver-lettered gray cloth with dustjacket. NF/NF, attractive 4" x 6" bookplate affixed to front free endpaper, else a crisp, unmarked copy, top of spine gently bumped. Rene Pechere (1908-2002), Belgian landscape architect, became known by the garden of four seasons and the Congolese garden he conceived for the Exhibition of Brussels in 1958. He created gardens for castles or simple houses in Belgium, France, Germany and Holland. The labyrinth and the garden of the heart he drew for Mr and Mrs Van Buuren in Uccle insured him an international fame. Sylvie Desauw photographed the gardens during the different seasons.
Inventory number #010662