Parisian gardens are among the most beautiful celebrated in the world: more than 400 green areas scattered around the city constitute an immense ecological and historic heritage, which is highly appreciated by tourists and, of course, by locals.
Parisian gardens inspired the collaboration between Maison Pierre Frey and Marin Montagut, who are both in love with the city and decided to dedicate a line of wallpapers to its most beautiful parks.
The French formal gardens Les Tuileries could not be missing from this list. Designed by landscape architect Bernard de Carnesse between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde, they were commissioned by Caterina de’ Medici and became a public park after the French Revolution. The Medici wanted also the Jardin du Luxembourg that today houses the current French Senate, together with orchards, an orangerie, and the famous Medici Fountain - an ornamental work in Italian style. Finally the biggest botanical garden in France, the Jardin des Plantes, an old royal garden with medical plants founded in 1626 and expanded in the 18th century. Inside are exotic and mountain species, the ecological, rose, peony, and iris gardens, and a hedge maze.
Marin Montagut, a French artist who chose watercolour as her favourite expressive tool, painted for Pierre Frey every garden, taking inspiration from 18th century engravings and creating also a black and white variant.
The outcome is a collection of wallpapers that invites to take a stroll in the garden, an exaltation of suspended time among the illustrated plants of the famous Parisian gardens and the most iconic elements representing them: the renowned chair Senta of Jardin du Luxembourg, a pink flamingo of the Jardin des Plantes, and a sailboat of the Jardin des Tuileries.
