Achille Duchêne (1 November 1866 – 12 November 1947) was a French garden designer who worked in the grand manner established by
André Le Nôtre
André Le Nôtre (; 12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700), originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. He was the landscape architect who designed Gardens ...
. The son of the landscaper Henri Duchêne, Achille Duchêne was the garden designer most in demand among high French society at the turn of the 20th century. He built up a large office to handle the practice, which was responsible over a period of years for some six thousand gardens in France and worldwide.
Among the more notable commissions:
* Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte for Alfred Sommier
* Carolands, for Harriett Pullman Carolan in Hillsborough, California, US
* Château de Champs,
Champs-sur-Marne
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Boni de Castellane
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(1903–1906)
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Château de Breteuil
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Yvelines
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Yvelines
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Blenheim Palace
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Château de Langeais
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Château de Sassy
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Boischampré
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), about 1925, for Gaston d'Audiffret
* Garden of the Hôtel Porgès, 18 avenue Montaigne, Paris 8e, for
Jules Porgès
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Boni de Castellane
Marie Ernest Paul Boniface de Castellane, Marquis de Castellane (14 February 1867 – 20 October 1932), known as Boni de Castellane, was a French nobleman and politician. He was known as a leading ''Belle Époque'' tastemaker and the first husban ...
* Nordkirchen Schlossgarten,
Nordkirchen
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Le Creusot
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), for the Schneider family (1904–1908)
* Garden at the Cloître de l' Abbaye de Royaumont (1912)
* The Errázuriz Palace, the private residence of Josefina de Alvear and Matias Errázuriz, in
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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(1914)
* The
Bosch Palace
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(1915)
* Park of Schoppenwihr at
Ostheim
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Haut-Rhin
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), garden restoration for Général Baron de Berckheim
* Gardens of Eijsden Castle (around 1900), near
Maastricht
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, the Netherlands Description at monumentenregister.cultureelerfgoed.nl, official website for Dutch cultural heritage
* Mikes kastély, Zabola Estate, Transylvania, Romania, general plan for Count Armin Mikes
In 1935, Duchêne published ''Les jardins de l'avenir'', in which he affirmed that there was no future for grand aristocratic parks and that for the future one must think in terms of simplified maintenance in reduced scale.
Further reading
* Dwyer, Michael Middleton. ''Carolands''. Redwood City, CA: San Mateo County Historical Association, 2006.
See also
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Landscape architecture
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