Architectural Record – August 2019

Overlooking the Porte d’Aval, a natural stone arch along
Normandy’s Alabaster Coast, Les Jardins d’Étretat, a
public garden created by Russian landscape designer
Alexander Grivko, evokes the swirls of the ocean in
PHOTOGRAPHY: © RICHARD BLOOM pristinely sculpted flora.

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PERCHED ATOP THE ROCKY CLIFFS OF NORMANDY, A DAZZLING DISPLAY OF

TOPIARY PROVIDES AN IDYLLIC SETTING FOR SCULPTURE. BY ALEX KLIMOSKI