Anières garden

At Anières, on the shore of Lake Geneva, a villa's garden is conceived not as a lawn but as a sequence of places to use. Answering a competition set by the owner, Mint Gardens lays out an open-air amphitheatre, a pond, a tree house and a descent to the lake. The approach is natural but kept: planting loose in habit, precise in upkeep, looking spontaneous without ever looking neglected. Each episode has its use, and the whole is walked like a route between the house and the water.