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Funky Design Team: Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2012 6:39 PM
Funky Design Visit to Jardin Marjorelle, Marrakech, Morocco. January 2012.
Jacques Majorelle, born in 1886 in Nancy (France). In 1919 he settled in Marrakech to continue his career as a painter, he acquired land on which to build a home and set about the task of creating a garden for relaxation and inspiration. He opened the garden to the public in 1947. Following a car accident, he returned to france, where he died in 1962. in 1980 Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent repurchased the garden and restored it.
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Funky Design Team: Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2012 6:38 PM
Funky design team visit Rousham House & Gardens
The gardens at Rousham Park are unique. They are the only gardens designed by William Kent that remain - nearly three hundred years later - much as he planned them. Kent also contributed to the gardens at Stowe, Chiswick, Claremont, Badminton, and Chatsworth. It is only at Rousham that he conceived the whole garden. We are lucky. In 1760, Walpole described Rousham as "the most engaging of all Kent’s works".
William Kent (1684 - 1748) was among the most influential artists of his time. A painter in his early life in England and Italy, he later worked as an architect, a designer of interior decoration, furniture and theatre sets, and as a literary illustrator. Late in life - from around the age of 40 he designed only a dozen or so gardens.
At Rousham, Kent was asked to redesign gardens already formed by others, including Bridgeman and, possibly, Pope. Bridgeman's designs were mainly formal and largely symmetrical, but they did reflect something of the contemporary trend to greater informality and "naturalness". In 1737 General Dormer invited Kent to Rousham to work on the design of the house and its 25 acre garden - a modest size compared with Stowe and with an unusually steep slope to the River Cherwell and pastoral and rural views.
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Funky design team: Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2012 6:37 PM
Funky garden visit, Les Jardins Exotiques, Sale, Rabat, Morocco
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Funky design team: Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2012 6:05 PM
Funky garden visit, Jardin Nouzhat Hassan, Rabat, Morocco.
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Funky design team: Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2012 5:56 PM
Funky visit, Kasbah, Rabat, Morocco
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Funky design team: Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2012 5:39 PM
Funky garden visit, Bahia Palace, Marrakech, Morocco.
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Funky design team: Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2012 5:30 PM
Funky garden visit, Cyber Parc, Marrakech, Morocco.
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Funky design team: Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2012 4:49 PM
Funky design team garden visit, Jewish museum gardens, Casablanca, Morocco
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Funky design team: Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2012 4:36 PM
Funky Garden visit, Parc de la Ligue Arabe, Casablanca, Morocco.
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Funky Design Team: Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:06 AM
Funky Design team visit Menara gardens, Marrakech, Morocco.
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Funky Design Team: Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2012 9:40 PM
Funky Design Team visit - Andalusian Gardens, Kasbah, Rabat. Jan 2012
Although true to Andalusian traditions, with its flowering annuals and beds of shrubs, the gardens were actually constructed by the French in the twentieth-century. The gardens are a delightful shady retreat, with a profusion of daturas, oleanders, orange, lemon and banana trees.
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Funky Design Team: Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 10:19 AM
Funky visit Hampton Court RHS Show (2011)
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Funky Design Team: Posted on Monday, December 12, 2011 8:15 PM
The Winter Garden Cambridge University Botanic Garden
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Funky Design Team: Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2011 5:20 PM
Stowe Landscaped Gardens
Funky Gardens - Garden design team visit to Stowe landscaped gardens in Buckinghamshire for the fantastic Autumn display of colour.
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Funky design team: Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2011 4:23 PM
Funky visit, Isle of Wight.
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