Achille Duchêne
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Achille Duchêne was a French garden designer who worked in the grand manner established by André Le Nôtre
. The son of the landscaper
Henri Duchêne, Achille Duchêne was the garden designer most in demand among high French society at the turn of the twentieth century. He built up a large office to handle the practice, which was responsible over a period of years for some six thousand gardens in France and worldwide.
Among the more notable commissions:
In 1935, Achille Duchêne published Les jardins de l'avenir, in which he affirmed that there was no future for grand aristocratic parks, and that for the future one must think in terms of simplified maintenance in reduced scale.
André Le Nôtre
André Le Nôtre was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France...
. The son of the landscaper
Henri Duchêne, Achille Duchêne was the garden designer most in demand among high French society at the turn of the twentieth century. He built up a large office to handle the practice, which was responsible over a period of years for some six thousand gardens in France and worldwide.
Among the more notable commissions:
- Château de Vaux-le-VicomteVaux-le-VicomteThe Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 km southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne département of France...
for Alfred Sommier - Château de Champs, Champs-sur-MarneChamps-sur-MarneChamps-sur-Marne is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the Seine-et-Marne Departments of France in the Île-de-France region from the center of Paris....
, for comte Louis Cahen d'Anvers - Château de CourancesChâteau de CourancesThe Château de Courances at Courances is a French château built in approximately 1630.- House :In 1552, Côme Clausse, a notary and royal secretary to the King, acquired from the Lapite family the former seigneurial dwelling at Courances, at the western edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau...
, for the marquise Jean de Ganay - Château du Marais, for comte Boni de CastellanePaul Ernest BonifacePaul Ernest Boniface de Castellane was the Marquis de Castellane.-Name:There are many variations of his name, all these are taken directly from news reports:*Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane...
(1903-1906) - Château de BreteuilChâteau de BreteuilThe Château de Breteuil was built in the early 17th century and decorated principally in the 18th century...
(YvelinesYvelinesYvelines is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.-History:Yvelines was created from the western part of the defunct department of Seine-et-Oise on 1 January 1968 in accordance with a law passed on 10 January 1964 and a décret d'application from 26 February 1965.It gained the...
) (with his father Henri Duchêne) - Château de Rosny-sur-SeineChâteau de Rosny-sur-SeineThe Château de Rosny-sur-Seine is a château in the Louis XIII style, situated in Rosny-sur-Seine in Yvelines, on the left bank of the Seine, at a short driving distance from Paris by the road to Rouen....
(YvelinesYvelinesYvelines is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.-History:Yvelines was created from the western part of the defunct department of Seine-et-Oise on 1 January 1968 in accordance with a law passed on 10 January 1964 and a décret d'application from 26 February 1965.It gained the...
), for Paul Lebaudy (end of the nineteenth century) - Château de Voisins at Saint-Hilarion (Yvelines), for comte Edmond de Fels
- Water parterres of Blenheim PalaceBlenheim PalaceBlenheim Palace is a monumental country house situated in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, residence of the dukes of Marlborough. It is the only non-royal non-episcopal country house in England to hold the title of palace. The palace, one of England's largest houses, was built between...
for the duke of Marlborough - Château de LangeaisChâteau de LangeaisThe Château de Langeais is a castle in Indre-et-Loire, France, built on a promontory created by the small valley of the Roumer River at the opening to the Val de Loire...
- Château de Sassy (OrneOrneOrne is a department in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne.- History :Orne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution, on March 4, 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Normandy and Perche.- Geography :Orne is in the region of...
), about 1925, for Gaston d'Audiffret - Garden of the Hôtel Porgès, 18 avenue Montaigne, Paris 8e, for Jules PorgèsJules PorgèsJules Porgès was a Paris-based financier who played a central role in the rise of the Randlords who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa....
- Gardens of the Palais Rose, avenue Foch, for Boni de CastellanePaul Ernest BonifacePaul Ernest Boniface de Castellane was the Marquis de Castellane.-Name:There are many variations of his name, all these are taken directly from news reports:*Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane...
- Nordkirchen Schlossgarten, NordkirchenNordkirchenNordkirchen is a municipality in the district of Coesfeld, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Nordkirchen's most famous site is Schloss Nordkirchen, built in the 18th century for a local bishop and known as the Versailles of Westphalia, as it is the largest residence in that part of Germany...
, Germany - Château de la Verrerie (Le CreusotLe CreusotLe Creusot is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.The inhabitants are known as Creusotins. Formerly a mining town, its economy is now dominated by metallurgical companies such as ArcelorMittal, Schneider Electric, and Alstom.Since the 1990s, the...
), for the Schneider family (1904-1908) - Garden at the Cloître de l'Abbaye de Royaumont (1912)
- The Bosch PalaceBosch PalaceThe Bosch Palace is an architecturally significant residence in the Palermo section of Buenos Aires, Argentina.-Overview:The French Neoclassical mansion was commissioned by Elisa and Ernesto Bosch in 1910...
, the private residence of Elisa and Ernesto BoschErnesto BoschErnesto Bosch was a prominent Argentine landowner, lawyer, and diplomat who served as the first President of the Central Bank of Argentina.-Life and times:...
, in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1915) - Park of Schoppenwihr at OstheimOstheimOstheim vor der Rhön is a town situated in Bavaria , in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld. -History:Ostheim was first mentioned in 804. Previously an exclave of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ostheim vor der Rhön was an exclave of Thuringia in Bavaria from 1920 until 1947...
(Haut-RhinHaut-RhinHaut-Rhin is a département of the Alsace region of France, named after the Rhine river. Its name means Upper Rhine. Haut-Rhin is the smaller and less populated of the two departements of Alsace, although is still densely populated compared to the rest of France.-Subdivisions:The department...
), garden restoration for général baron de Berckheim - Mikes kastély, ZabolaZabolaZăbala is a commune in Covasna County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania.- Component villages :The commune comprises 5 villages:-Demographics:...
Estate, Transylvania, Romania, general plan for Count Armin Mikes
In 1935, Achille Duchêne published Les jardins de l'avenir, in which he affirmed that there was no future for grand aristocratic parks, and that for the future one must think in terms of simplified maintenance in reduced scale.