The rock bed
Le Jardin du repos was one of eight temporary gardens commissioned for the inaugural year of the Festival International de l’art des Jardins Contemporains at Métis, Québec in 2000. Oversized garden furniture which literally and referentially embodied a particular characteristic of the local St Lawrence River landscape sat within an enormous bed of artemisia to allow the visitor a focused experience of both the immediate site and the broader landscape. Found objects, materials and forms like mussel shells, intricately fissured beach stones, firewood, hay, gabion walls, corn cribs – ubiquitous in the surrounding area of beach, cottage, farm and historical Victorian garden – were assembled stacked and stuffed to make the furniture.
The Rock Bed
The Bosc Seat and Incinerator
The Incinerator
The Chaise Longue and Rock Bed
The Chaise Longue
The Hay Fence
The Hay Fence and Bosc Seat
The Rock Bed and Bosc Seat
The Bosc Seat
Concept Collage View
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