Jardin

Jardin looks to the ornamental garden, where nature and decoration have always enjoyed a rather civilised relationship. Plants are encouraged into order, vistas are composed and even the wildest foliage somehow knows where it belongs. There is formality, but rarely at the expense of pleasure.

The garden has long provided designers with a rich decorative vocabulary. Leaves, flowers, urns and fantastical plants have wandered freely between landscape, textiles, ceramics and interiors. Jardin belongs to that tradition without trying to recreate a particular historical pattern. It takes the idea of the cultivated garden and turns it into something more graphic and exuberant.

The stripe brings another decorative language into play. It carries a hint of Regency splendour, when stripes could be wonderfully confident, particularly alongside elaborate furnishings and botanical motifs. The combination feels slightly theatrical, giving the garden a framework rather than leaving it to roam unchecked.

Regency taste and ornamental gardening were, happily, very comfortable companions. The period inherited a fascination with picturesque landscapes and increasingly embraced exotic planting, conservatories and deliberately composed garden scenes. So the connection is more than coincidence, even if Jardin arrived there by instinct.

There is something appealing about bringing these references together without treating them too reverently. Jardin takes the manners of the ornamental garden, adds the confidence of a stripe, and allows both to become a little more playful.

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