Ruben PhilipsenStairs leading from the terrace into the gardens, also known as a Grand Parterre, at the Château of Chantilly, France, 2016.
The Château of Chantilly and its gardens hold a special place in my heart. It is where I got down on my knees back in the summer of 1997, presented my then girlfriend with a ring and proposed. She accepted and we got married the two years later. And we still are.
The Château of Chantilly is comprised out of several buildings, each of which is a testament of its time. Yet, the total doesn’t look like a collection of individual buildings but rather presents itself as a ‘whole’. The entire building is a continuity of shape and form whilst at the same time it willingly expresses its collage nature, thus stating, however subtle, a distinction between old and new, between tragic past and majestic present, between that what ones was and things yet to come. The château embodies the passing of time in the most elegant way possible. Over the centuries constructing, destroying, reconstructing and remoddeling all seem to have constituted a building that couldn’t have been build in any otter way. In these turbulent and confusing times that to me somehow is a very comforting and hopeful thought.
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The Château of Chantilly and its gardens hold a special place in my heart. It is where I got down on my knees back in the summer of 1997, presented my then girlfriend with a ring and proposed. She accepted and we got married the two years later. And we still are.
The Château of Chantilly is comprised out of several buildings, each of which is a testament of its time. Yet, the total doesn’t look like a collection of individual buildings but rather presents itself as a ‘whole’. The entire building is a continuity of shape and form whilst at the same time it willingly expresses its collage nature, thus stating, however subtle, a distinction between old and new, between tragic past and majestic present, between that what ones was and things yet to come. The château embodies the passing of time in the most elegant way possible. Over the centuries constructing, destroying, reconstructing and remoddeling all seem to have constituted a building that couldn’t have been build in any otter way. In these turbulent and confusing times that to me somehow is a very comforting and hopeful thought.
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