Achille Duchêne

Who was Achille Duchêne?

Achille Duchêne was a French garden designer who worked in the grand manner established by André Le Nôtre. 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 twentieth 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, USA

⁕Château de Champs, Champs-sur-Marne, for comte Louis Cahen d'Anvers

⁕Château de Courances, for the marquise Jean de Ganay

⁕Château du Marais, for comte Boni de Castellane

⁕Château de Breteuil

⁕Château de Rosny-sur-Seine, for Paul Lebaudy

⁕Château de Voisins at Saint-Hilarion, for comte Edmond de Fels

⁕Water parterres of Blenheim Palace for the duke of Marlborough

⁕Château de Langeais

⁕Château de Sassy, about 1925, for Gaston d'Audiffret

⁕Garden of the Hôtel Porgès, 18 avenue Montaigne, Paris 8e, for Jules Porgès