Bois des Moutiers

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The mansion seen from the park

Bois des Moutiers is the name of a mansion with an extensive garden in Varengeville-sur-Mer , Normandy , on the French Atlantic coast. The house and garden were created around 1900 by architect Edwin Lutyens and garden designer Gertrude Jekyll and are famous for their stocks of rhododendrons , azaleas and magnolias . Bois des Moutiers has been listed as a Monument historique since 1975 and is open to the public.

history

Rhododendrons in the Bois des Moutiers
Manor house in the middle of the extensive English garden

The property was acquired in 1897 by Guillaume Mallet (1860–1946), who came from an old Protestant banking family, and it took almost 40 years of work to remodel it. In 1898 he commissioned the young Edwin Lutyens to remodel and enlarge the house from the mid-19th century and the already famous Gertrude Jekyll to design the garden. The arts and crafts style with its emphasis on simplicity and material authenticity shaped the renovation.

The park consists of seven partial gardens ( chambres vertes - "green rooms"). Guillaume Mallet and his wife Marie-Adélaïde Grunelius were followers of theosophy and therefore placed particular emphasis on a harmonious design inside and out.

The Mallet couple died in 1946. The house and garden had suffered serious damage during the German occupation, which the heirs repaired where possible. The house was opened to the public in 1970 and has since been visited by over 2 million people. In 1999 there were 52,000 paying visitors, but in 2010 only 25,000. This tendency of decreasing visitor numbers and the resulting deficits in current maintenance as well as the fragmentation of the property among currently 11 heirs have stimulated media reports about a planned sale of Les Moutiers. The official value of the property is estimated at around 5.8 million euros.

literature

  • E. Sander, A. Bouchayer-Mallet: Les Jardins du Bois des Moutiers , Ulmer, 2011 ( excerpt )
  • Erik Orsenna: Le Bois des Moutiers , published by Le Bois des Moutiers, 2007
  • E. Ducamps, JB Leroux: Le Bois des Moutiers , La Maison Rustique, 1998
  • Gaving Stamp: Edwin Lutyens, Country Life: From the Archives of Country Life , Country Life, 2001
  • C. Amery, M. Lutyens, J. Cornforth: Lutyens: The work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens , Art Council of Great Britain, 1981

Web links

Commons : Bois des Moutiers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source Le Monde June 30, 2011

Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 42 ″  N , 0 ° 58 ′ 59 ″  E