{"product_id":"marie-antoinettes-garden-hardback","title":"Marie-Antoinette's Garden\/Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlants, flowers, and trees were Marie-Antoinette’s great passion. At the Petit Trianon, she created an enchanted refuge from the formalities of Versailles — a garden of hyacinths and anemones, winding Anglo-Chinese paths, fragrant shrubs surrounding the Temple of Love, and wildflowers in the Garden of Solitude.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis lavishly illustrated hardback meanders through her estate as the queen herself would have walked it, drawing on archival documents to reconstruct the gardens in exquisite detail. Accompanied by eighteenth-century botanical watercolours from Pierre-Joseph Redoné and his contemporaries, it weaves together descriptions of the cosmetic and medicinal uses of each plant, anecdotes from the royal court, and the quiet beauty of the herbarium.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA book to be read slowly, and kept close.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e240 pages · 235 × 185mm · ISBN 9782080482433\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Reps","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42932424048734,"sku":"MAGHB","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0015\/2941\/3726\/files\/9782080482433_750x_4d18e1ef-b79d-4c4a-b98e-bd629400a730.jpg?v=1782169569","url":"https:\/\/villarosanz.co.nz\/products\/marie-antoinettes-garden-hardback","provider":"Villarosa Maison","version":"1.0","type":"link"}