Word: wisteria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where Richard the Lion-Hearted's Chateau Gaillard stands watch over the valleys below. Perhaps the most haunting of all the stops is Monet's retreat at Giverny, where the painter lived for 43 years until his death in 1926. In his calendar, June belongs to the rhododendrons and wisteria, but come summer each color will have its season, as the rambling roses bloom in August and dahlias erupt in the fall...
...Considerable seed money has been directed into landscaping, roughly $3 billion last year, $745 million more than the year before. Such expenditures, by some estimates, can boost the value of real estate by 7% to 15%. Young anglophiles hope that a wanton English garden with piles of ivy and wisteria will add some majesty to the estate. Never mind that few climates in the U.S. could conceivably produce the soggy consolation that England provides its gardeners. What weather cannot provide, clutter can. So there is a thriving market in gazebo kits, stone dogs with baskets in their mouths, gates, bird...
...scene in the palace is dismal. Within the courtyard, acres of wisteria blooms seem lacklustre and inanimate. Even the thick gold pavement on the garden path seems to have lost its sheen. The heads of traitorous peasants bob wearily on poorly-maintained pikes. Entering the main hall, I find the prince sprawled, seemingly in despair, on top of a large pile of wrinkled and soiled currency...
...panoply of period kitsch, from 1850s imitators of Ingres through Bouguereau to what must be the most obsessively pederastic elocution in all art history, Jean Delville's School of Plato, featuring Alcibiades and his willowy friends yearning like blessed damsels at the lucky philosopher in a landscape full of wisteria and white peacocks. Woven through these galleries are some of the most deliriously awful canvases of the 19th century, marvels of the salon in their day, high-finance porn of the ripest sort: Cabanel's The Birth of Venus, Clesinger's notorious Woman Stung by a Serpent. "Certainly we have...
...scents of lemons, wisteria and pines perfume the California breezes. Or perhaps ocean spray invigorates the skin and spirit at the tip of Long Island. Or the clear desert air of Arizona reinforces the sense of being cleansed. Whatever the surroundings, the wake-up call likely comes at 6 a.m., and after a breakfast that could be served in a thimble and saucer, the hectic dawn-to- dusk pace rivals anything ever dreamed up by a drill sergeant. "By the end of the day," declares Diane Sepler, 46, a Miami interior designer who is a happy devotee of such regimens...