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Record 1 2010-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Flowers and Ornamentals (Horticulture)
CONT

Lay down a carpet bed-No Victorian garden would be complete without carpet bedding. In keeping with the outdoor room concept, these bright, tapestry like flower beds were the Persian rugs of the Victorian garden. Gardeners started decorating lawns early in the Victorian era in single-color geometric beds.

CONT

Thouin created promenades for recreation which are seen in Paris to this day at the "Parc Montsouris" and the "Buttes-Chaumont". He elaborated the use of lowgrowing plants in flower beds known as carpet bedding (or mosaiculture).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
  • Floriculture
DEF

Méthode d'ornementation des corbeilles et plates-bandes, qui consiste dans le groupement de plantes diversement colorées (feuilles et fleurs), pour obtenir des dessins réguliers.

CONT

Dans les jardins irréguliers, dits «paysagers», on utilisait au siècle dernier la corbeille, dérivée de formes géométriques courbes (ovale, ove, rond, croissant, etc.), dont le profil était bombé et s'associait au vallonnement des pelouses. La forme des corbeilles était en harmonie avec la courbe des allées. On installait à l'intérieur de cette corbeille un dessin géométrique plus ou moins compliqué et l'on traitait chaque élément du dessin avec des plantes différentes : c'était la mosaïculture. Cette mode fut très répandue à la fin du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe siècle.

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Decorative Arts
  • Collection Items (Museums and Heritage)
DEF

A Japanese vertical wall-picture or inscription mounted on a roller.

CONT

A kakemono... is a Japanese scroll painting, an ink-and-brush painting that hangs in a recess in a traditional Japanese house. In a teahouse, or the room called a chashitsu, which is located in a secluded garden setting away from the main dwelling, the choice of the kakemono and its complementary flower arrangement help set the spiritual mood of the ceremony itself, in perfect harmony with the time of year.

OBS

In contrast to the Kakemono, a Makimono is a hand scroll, a painting or calligraphy which is supposed to be held in the hand.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts décoratifs divers
  • Objets de collection (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
DEF

Peinture japonaise sur soie ou sur papier, étroite et haute, suspendue verticalement et que l'on peut enrouler autour d'un baton de bois.

OBS

kakémono : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 3 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flowers and Ornamentals (Horticulture)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Floriculture

Spanish

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