Imagine paging through the mouth-watering paintings of French garden vegetables commissioned by the 19th century's most important seed company, Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie, and ordering your seeds for your spring garden? Les Plantes potagères (The Vegetable Garden, 1850–1895) featured 46 magnificent color plates. The Vilmorins employed some 15 painters to create this work of agro-botanic iconography; most had trained as artist-naturalists at the Jardin des Plantes, the former Royal Gardens, including Elisa Champin. These illustrations—reproduced for Taschen with exquisite care and accuracy—transcend mere artistic interest, beautiful as they are, they are also a valuable resource for anyone researching cultivarietal evolution and old varieties of fruits and vegetables. http://ww.taschen.com/ Located on Beverly Drive - leaf through a book and enjoy your vegetables.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Your kitchen as art gallery
Imagine paging through the mouth-watering paintings of French garden vegetables commissioned by the 19th century's most important seed company, Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie, and ordering your seeds for your spring garden? Les Plantes potagères (The Vegetable Garden, 1850–1895) featured 46 magnificent color plates. The Vilmorins employed some 15 painters to create this work of agro-botanic iconography; most had trained as artist-naturalists at the Jardin des Plantes, the former Royal Gardens, including Elisa Champin. These illustrations—reproduced for Taschen with exquisite care and accuracy—transcend mere artistic interest, beautiful as they are, they are also a valuable resource for anyone researching cultivarietal evolution and old varieties of fruits and vegetables. http://ww.taschen.com/ Located on Beverly Drive - leaf through a book and enjoy your vegetables.
