Garden

Jérémie Attali first wanted to make this space “a visual, olfactory and gustatory experience and delicious varieties” and give it an air of a summer kitchen garden, echoing Alain Ducasse's oft-repeated motto: "Before cuisine, there is nature". As the season progresses you'll find heirloom tomatoes, yellow zucchinis and eggplants. Aromatic plants have not been forgotten: basil, sage, mint and many others. Red fruits and even two linden trees for infusions come and help themselves.

This vegetable garden is surrounded by decorative plants, sometimes spectacular, and all around the garden, kiwis, honeysuckle, hops, grapevines and wisteria, creating a veritable “plant room”.

A hedge of fragrant rosebushes, a nod to Baccarat: all the roses are white, with the exception of one, red, in homage to the red crystal tassel that marks every Baccarat chandelier.

From the stoop, a path leads to the bottom of the garden.

There, you're greeted by the murmur of a small water feature, very much in the spirit of classical French gardens. In the basin, a few ukidama—the glass balls used by Japanese fishermen for their nets—float gently.

At the other end of the garden, past the terrace, you reach the orangery, created under a porch whose all-glass facade opens onto the garden. Here, Jérémie has gathered a variety of citrus trees—lemon, yuzu, caviar lemon, Buddha's hand, Rangoon mandarin—as well as some rare plants, such as a vanilla orchid.

The landscape designer also envisioned this living garden as an example of sustainable cultivation. Following the principles of permaculture, watering is kept to a minimum, and maintenance is done by hand, with virtually no machinery.

The garden is also a haven for biodiversity, home to plants that were once endemic to Île-de-France but have now become rare or even endangered, such as the tauzin oak, Roman chamomile, carnation, and Vaccinium species.

Jérémie Attali

Landscaper

For the past ten years or so, this young forty-year-old has been making a name for himself in the world. Precisely since he succeeded in curing the garden of the Ritz Hotel from the numerous pathologies from which it pathologies. Today, Jérémie Attali, with his company Yokai Paysage, brings his know-how and and sensitivity to numerous customers.