Communication de Camille Lesouef dans la cadre du 17ème World Congress on Art Deco.
Lieu : Paris, Auditorium de la Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine
Site de la conférence : https://www.paris-artdeco.org/?page_id=6263
Date : 21-24 octobre 2025
Titre de l’intervention : Heritage of the Exposition gardens
Résumé : The ephemeral gardens of the 1925 Exposition marked a turning point in the popularization of a modern and French garden style. These gardens, often referred to as « Art Deco gardens, » influenced the creation of parks and gardens in France and internationally during the interwar period. The Exposition served as a springboard for architects and landscape architects such as Gabriel Guévrékian, Joseph Marrast, and the Vera brothers, offeri ng them increased visibility and opportunities for public and private projects. This conference, based on Parisian archives, analyzes the legacy and posterity of the gardens of the 1925 Exposition. It relies on a corpus of gardens designed by Gabriel Guévrékian, Joseph Marrast, Albert Laprade, the Vera brothers, and Jacques Gréber between 1925 and 1939 in France and the United States. The aim is to highlight the raie of these individuals in the legacy of the Exhibition/Exposition gardens, and the way in which they adapted their creations to new commissions, sites, climates and so on.