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THE HOUSE AND ITS EQUIPMENT. 



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iSS. DESIGN FROM A DUTCH GARDEN BOOK. 



Pierre Bet in, Jean Marot, Jacques 

 Boyceau and Mariette. Treillage was 

 especially used in the gardens of town 

 houses, as we see it still so much in 

 Paris to-day. At Chantilly there is the 

 graceful little Temple d Amour ; this 

 example shows the art of treillage at its 

 very best, and, although of no great 

 antiquity, it deserves to rank with the 

 best work of the eighteenth century. 

 At the entrance to the lie d Amour, in 

 which this pavilion stands, are two 

 pyramids of treillage on either side of the 

 bridge connecting the island. \Ye may 

 gather much about French treillage of 

 the eighteenth century from a rare work, 

 L Art du Treillageur,&quot; published in 

 Paris in 1745. In his introduction the 

 author rightly gives all credit to the 

 French for the perfection to which the 

 art had then been brought. Treillage, 

 he says, like other arts, was simple in 

 its origin and limited to utilitarian pur 

 poses, such as the support of the 

 &quot; treilles.&quot; Until the eighteenth century 

 it was only used to train the young 

 branches of fruit trees or of hedges divid 

 ing garden walks and the different parts 

 of the vegetable garden ; when used for 

 these purposes it had no decorative 

 value, and, with few exceptions, such as 

 the great trcillis, which was one of the 

 principal ornaments of the gardens of 

 Charles VI. and his successors in the 



that are shown have designs for treillage. The great galleries 

 of Montargis had quite a solid architectural appearance. 

 At Blois the privy garden was entirely surrounded with 

 treillage berceaux and trellis covering the walks in the 

 kitchen gardens. At Beauregard treillage galleries formed 

 the boundaries of the herb gardens, and at Gaillon an elabo 

 rate pavilion occupied a large space in the centre of the 

 parterre. These examples of treillage were constructed of 

 very light chestnut laths, fastened together with small 

 wooden pegs, and towards the end of the fifteenth century 

 iron wire was more generally used. As early as the thir 

 teenth century the &quot; treille &quot; was to be found in the citizens 

 gardens at Paris, and in the time of Saint Louis these 

 berceaux were much appreciated. The idea of an archi 

 tectural treillage was introduced into France from Italy at 

 the beginning of the sixteenth century. 



In the next century there was a more extended use of 

 treillage, and in the eighteenth century every garden must 

 have abounded in elaborate examples. Many of these 

 designs are to be found in the engravings of Le Pautre, 



Modeller) van Luft-prieeTen. 



l8g. DUTCH DESIGNS FOR TREILLAGE. 



