Indoors, the same blending of repurposed objects and well worn, aged materials adds a sense
of time. Here, weathered surface of a sideboard, lion face plaque, and oleander in the orangerie.
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Open Days Visit to Jardin de Buis, Enjoying the Indoors
Saturday, 14 September 2019
An overcast day gave us soft filtered light to wander around the gardens of Jardin de Buis. The landscape places buildings in symmetry, connected with stone walls and hedges. Visitors find their way around the grounds, and wide open doors welcome them in to the various buildings, the orangerie and the main house.
Indoors, the same blending of repurposed objects and well worn, aged materials adds a sense
of time. Here, weathered surface of a sideboard, lion face plaque, and oleander in the orangerie.
A lunch is generously provided in the orangerie, using the console table for serve yourself buffet.
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Quinoa and black bean salad with baby lettuce, cherry tomatoes, and mozzarella cheese.
Orzo salad with torn leaves of basil, cherry tomatoes, and mozzarella cheese, cubed.
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Sandwich options include beef fillet on sourdough bread, chicken salad on croissants, or ham.
Two different dessert platters, and a fresh fruit plate with melon, figs, blackberries, and grapes.
This comfortable, casual sofa in the orangerie is where I chose to
sit and enjoy my déjeuner, using a convenient bench as table.
Once finished, I took a closer look at the substantial bookcase,
filled with well worn volumes. Perhaps the drawers hold maps.
Another corner holds a clutter of ladders. Each is individual, but unified by color.
A charming bathroom in the orangerie. It's not make-believe but clearly well used.
Time is passing. More open day visitors are arriving. It's time
to go back outdoors, enjoy the grounds, visit the main house.
Once again, I admire the Aga in the kitchen. Andrea's father is nearby, and I mention how magnificent it is. Another visitor asks, and he explains how quickly it boils water, the useful warming shelf, the ovens. Adding my 2 cents I explain how it is always on, wonderful in winter. He agrees, and says on a cold day everyone is hovering over the stove.
Elegant cupboards, capacious enough to hold all the china,
cutlery, table linens one could want , conveniently stored.
Once a barn, now elegantly remodeled space with room for
multiple convenient seating areas, plentiful tables on which
to display objects de virtu, lovely works of art made to be admired but that may have no practical use. There are three of these elegant scale model staircases, each one different.
Fireplaces at opposite ends of the barn / hall. This, major, pillars lifting
your gaze up to the tapestry. It needs a barn sized space to display it.
And anything of lesser size would seem tiny, lilliputian, given the space.
Across the void (for even this building is a shell, enclosing volume)
is another, smaller fireplace. The gryphon mantle supports a lavish
arrangement of dried material, erupting, loosely, in all directions.
I've been here at Jardin de Buis for hours. There's yet one more Open Days
garden that I wish to see. Time to go. But plan to return, next year, for another fairyland visit.
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