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Vertical Gardens in Paris
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
vertical%20gardens%20in%20paris.jpgThe hottest trend in Parisian garden design is the vertical garden -- walls of plants 
arranged like living tapestries that provide green space without taking up square footage. And the maestro of the 
vertical garden is French green-haired botanist Patrick Blanc, whose copyrighted murs végétaux are revolutionizing urban 
gardens worldwide (and inspiring plenty of knock-offs on his home turf). Blanc's gardens are ingenious works of art, 
planted without soil on a durable frame of PVC, metal, and non-biodegradable felt, with a built-in pump watering system 
that allows them to thrive for years. Here's a list of original Blanc creations around Paris.
[Parking des Ternes] [Club Med Champs Elysées] [Hotel Pershing Hall] [Musée 
du Quai Branly] [Bhv Homme] [Fondation Cartier]
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Parking des Ternes

38, Avenue des Ternes
75017 17ème Arrondissement Paris, Paris, France

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N 48° 52.44281 E 2° 17.34191
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Club Med Champs Elysées

angle des Champs Elysées 70 Rue Pierre Charron 75008 Paris, France

Patrick Blanc's vertical garden at the Club Med space on the Champs-Elysées contains plants meant to represent the five 
continents, to help set the mood for … would-be travelers planning their organized voyages around the planet. It's all 
part of the group's effort to go upscale, creating a space that also incorporates modern design and a multitude of 
screens projecting images of faraway locales in a space it calls "an embassy of dreams." Blanc's wall is lit at night 
and visible from the exterior. [link]
N 48° 52.13659 E 2° 18.18673
3
Hotel Pershing Hall

49, Rue Pierre Charron 75008 Paris, France 01 58 36 58 00

French interior designer and architect Andrée Putman asked Patrick Blanc to design the spectacular and much talked-about 
30-meter vertical garden in the courtyard of the … Pershing Hall hotel in the 8th arrondissement in 2001. It 
incorporates more than 250 different plant varieties and adds another dimension to Putman's uber-chic modern design in 
the 19th-century building (and one-time residence of Gen. John J. Pershing). [link]
N 48° 52.8590 E 2° 18.8546
4
Musée du Quai Branly

55, Quai Branly
anly, 55, Quai Branly, 75007 7ème Arrondissement Paris, Paris, France

Inaugurated a year ago, the Jean Nouvel-designed Musée du Quai Branly is dedicated to primitive art from around the 
world. A 21st-century building in the heart of … 19th-century Paris, it is located on a patch of prime real estate in 
the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. If the museum and Nouvel's architecture has been controversial, Patrick Blanc's striking 
plant walls covering the administration building have captured the imaginations of nature-starved Parisians. [link]
N 48° 51.38872 E 2° 17.45697
5
Bhv Homme

36, rue de la Verrerie 75004 Paris, France 01 42 74 90 00

[link]
N 48° 51.27720 E 2° 21.13262
6
Fondation Cartier

261, Boulevard Raspail 75014 Paris, France 01 42 18 56 50

The plant wall at the entrance of the Jean Nouvel-designed Fondation Cartier was planted nearly a decade ago and has 
never been trimmed. "We have a gardener who comes in … every two or three months to replace plants if necessary or clear 
out dead leaves," says Hélène Kelmachter, a curator at the Fondation Cartier. "But it's never been cut and it's grown 
quite a bit since 1998. It takes a lot less maintenance than a garden. What's interesting about the work of Patrick 
Blanc is that he proceeds like a painter. He anticipates the way the plants will develop and the colors that will emerge 
according to the seasons, so it's not always the same. He really works like an artist." [link]
N 48° 50.14715 E 2° 19.52514

Filed under Art, Gardens, Has Map, Kristin Hohenadel, Paris, Patrick Blanc, 
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