Restoring Versailles

The plan to restore Versailles' great Baroque gardens to their 17th-century design evokes a controversy.

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June 24, 2002, 1:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Even if Le Nôtre's exquisite drawings are copied line for line, critics argue, the garden cannot be returned to an ideal golden moment, for such a moment never existed... According to conventional restoration theory, the sham is always worse than the ruin... Any facsimile is, by its nature, a product of the present."

Thanks to The Practice of New Urbanism

Read the full story: How Do You Define 'Real'?

Sunday, June 23, 2002 in The New York Times

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