Jardins et Art déco dans la France de l’entre-deux-guerres par Camille LESOUEF – Archives du Calvados
Gardens and Art Deco in France in the interwar period
The gardens designed in France during the interwar years are deeply associated with the Art Deco movement, developed at the same time in architecture and the decorative arts, in a quest for a new French style applicable to all art forms. Thanks to their geometrical aesthetics and their references to the history of French gardens, the gardens created in the 1920s and 1930s are therefore perfectly recognisable. Lanscapers also drew inspiration from avant-garde architectural, pictorial and decorative realisations, revisiting their creations via Mediterranean inspirations, equally in the garden outline and in its chosen plant life. This conference seeks to highlight the wealth of garden creation over the interwar period in France, focusing both on their similarities and on their great diversity.
Camille Lesouef
Camille Lesouef is a doctor in history of art and a researcher for the French Ministry for Culture, at the ENSA school of architecture in Grenoble – University of Grenoble Alpes (MHA Laboratory). Her research focuses on garden art throughout Europe over the first half of the 20th century. She pays particular attention to the historiography of garden art via the study of cultural transfer, theories and models, and the interrelation between garden art and architecture, decorative art and visual art.