Garden
From 1895 to 1920, Albert Kahn acquired nine parcels from twelve different owners in order to create a garden composed of landscaped scenes brightened up with “follies” and forests: le jardin français (the French-style garden), leverger-roseraie (the Orchard & Rose garden), le jardin anglais (the English-style garden), la forêt vosgienne (the Vosges Forest), la forêt bleue (the Blue Forest), la forêt dorée et la prairie (the Golden Forest & the Meadow), le marais (the Marshland), levillagejaponais (the Japanese Village), leSanctuaire (the Sanctuary), leverger-roseraie (the Orchard & Rose garden).
This scenic garden, a touching miniature world, was registered as a historical monument in 2015. Like testimonies of landscaping from the time, there are 2,500 autochromes of the garden in the museum’s collections. This small landscaping “registry” – which would be continued in Cap Martin on the Mediterranean Riviera – was particularly adapted to his piecemeal method of acquiring land.
The art of the Garden in Boulogne
Living in Boulogne-sur-Seine since 1892, Albert Kahn spent 30 years acquiring parcels of land near his villa. He thus compiled a 4.2-hectare property, where several types of gardens lie alongside one another according to the principle of the scenic landscape park theorized by the landscapist Edouard André.
The art of the Garden in Cap Martin
More than in Boulogne, here the banker acted as a genuine upper-class patron who invested and transformed a privileged place. He had the Danish architect, Hans-Georg Tersling, build a majestic villa overlooking the sea; then he bought two more villas, also by Tersling.
Un tour du monde botanique avec le jardin Albert-Kahn
Le guide botanique livre des informations d’ordre botanique sur les végétaux et apporte aux visiteurs des repères sur l’histoire du jardin et de ses espèces remarquables, illustrés par une riche iconographie combinant autochromes des collections du musée et photographies contemporaines.
